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Fungi-Fueled Innovation: Plastic-Eating Mold
May 5, 2023
A newly discovered 'shroomy solution to the world’s recycling crisis.
ICYMI, an exciting breakthrough has just been made by researchers in Australia. Naturally, it involves fungi. Scientists at the University of Sydney have
discovered that two types of common mold—Aspergillus terreus and Engyodontium album—can break down plastic in approximately 140 days. "It's the
highest degradation rate reported in the literature that we know in the world," says Ali Abbas, a chemical engineering professor at the University of
Sydney. This is a critical discovery because plastic recycling is more or less a myth. Most plastic waste ends up in the garbage and ultimately landfil...
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