Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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According to the research, lab-grown P. album was observed to break down a given piece of UV-treated plastic at a rate of roughly 0.05 percent per day for every nine-day period. Which isn't nothing, but it'd take a very long time for the bacteria to get through the entirety of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, let alone the millions of metric tons of plastics that enter the ocean every year.