As seniors in high school, they read through the hundreds of pages of scientific papers and had an idea: find bacteria (细菌) that can degrade (降解) plastic. The University of British Columbia invited Wang and Yao to use their lab space to start working on their ...
Bacteria belonging to the phylumActinobacteriaand generaThermobifidia,Thermomonosporaand Saccharomonosporahave given some promising results with their plastic-degrading enzymes. There are many more bacteria that can degrade plastic but the enzymes present in them are slow for industrial use. There is ...
Plastic samples were collected from the Marina Beach Semarang, Central Java. Plastic samples were taken from a depth of 0-10 cm in three coastal ecosystems: coastal sand sediments, rocks and mangroves. Samples then isolated and screened to obtain bacteria that have the ...
Plastic in the ocean exists not only as chunks and pieces but also as microplastic. Microplastic fragments are less than five millimeters long. The fragments form as larger pieces of plastic in seawater slowly degrade. They are also released into the sewage system when clothing made of plastic f...
Plastic-eating bugs can only consume PET and PUR. Other plastics, such as HDPE, could prove more difficult to biodegrade using bacteria, due to their chemical structure. Currently, bacteria can degrade limited types of plastic, such as PET and PUR, into constituent monomers (terephthalic acid an...
Now, scientists in Japan have discovered bacteria that can biodegrade this hardy plastic. "The bacterium is the first strain having a potential to degrade PET completely into carbon dioxide and water," said study co-author Kohei Oda, an applied microbiologist at the Kyoto Institute of Technology ...
To reduce plastic’s environmental impact we must find ways to do more with the plastic that’s already out there. Conventional methods of recycling cause it to degrade, so eventually new plastic has to be made from virgin materials.
根据第一段最后一句While operating the structure to better understand how it worked,they accidentally created the changed enzyme that's even more eficient at breaking down plastic bottles.可知,在操作这个结构以更好地理解它是如何工作的时候,他们无意中创造了一种酶可以更有效地降解塑料瓶。英国科学家未料...
Most plastic can already be recycled, and this is really just a new way to recycle it. However, as scientists warn seriously, Ideonella sakainesis' new function does not change the fact that only about 9% of plastics actually get recycled, while the rest get thrown away. They also point ...
mooreparkense, which are amino acid producers that contribute to the flavor of some smear-ripened cheeses. Enterococcus spp. In cheese, Enterococci can degrade lipids, citrate, and some organic acids giving off unique flavor compounds. E. faecium has been used for surface smearing of Munster, a...