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Microbes in cow stomach can break down plastic

Frontiers

The new findings present a sustainable option for reducing plastic waste and litter, co-opting the great metabolic diversity of microbes. The discovery is published today in the open access journal Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Ribitsch and her colleagues looked at three kinds of polyesters.