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Environmental News A Fungus Discovered in the Ecuadorian Rainforest Can Eat Plastic Pollution
Environmental News A Fungus Discovered in the Ecuadorian Rainforest Can Eat Plastic PollutionA Fungus Discovered in the Ecuadorian Rainforest Can Eat Plastic Pollution
9/12/2014
A natural solution to a natural problem: plastic-eating fungus. The fungus, named Pestalotiopsis microspore, was discovered in the rainforest of Ecuador by students from Yale’s Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry departments, and is said to be able to eat plastic on a large scale.
The fungus is said to have a healthy appetite for polyurethane. It actually feeds off polyurethane, a polymer that’s commonly found in anything from hard plastics to synthetic fibers.