plastic eating mushroom
One of the biggest environmental issues of our time is waste, plastic waste. While a straw ban will not help to solve the problem, people everywhere started to look for other solutions, methods, and ways they can reduce the usage of plastic and mitigate its effect on the environment. We are working to find solutions for this globally growing problem. Whether by removing the plastic from the six-pack, handing out embarrassing labeled plastic bags, or using the power of a plastic-eating mutant (bacteria). Well, one more awesome but strange discovery should be added to the list: A rare mushroom that eats plastic in the same way you and I would eat a Big Mac at Mcdonald’s. The mushroom’s ability to devour plastic was first discovered in 2011, according to reports. While a team of undergraduates and their professor from Yale were on a research trip in Ecuador. They found Pestalotiopsis microspore, the mushroom that grows in the Amazon and they were astonished to find out that...