Daniel Burd is a 16-year-old from Waterloo, Ontario who came up with a way to decompose a plastic bag in three months. (Plastic bags typically take thousands of years to decompose.)
After weeks of experimenting, Burd was able to isolate the plastic-eating microbes, Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas, that produced the most weight loss in the plastic bags.
Link [via Wired]
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