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Plastic-eating bacteria could be small step toward tackling world's pollution crisis

Plastic products made with polyurethane, a synthetic chemical compound, typically end up buried in a landfill.Now scientists discovered a strain of bacteria, the first of its kind, that can degrade ...
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Plastic-eating bacteria could be small step toward tackling world's pollution crisis

Plastic products made with polyurethane, a synthetic chemical compound, typically end up buried in a landfill.Now scientists discovered a strain of bacteria, the first of its kind, that can degrade ...
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Plastic-eating bacteria could be small step toward tackling world’s pollution crisis

A group of German researchers identified the bacterium Pseudomonas putida in the soil of a site covered in plastic waste. It fed on polyurethane diol, which is usually applied to materials to protect ...