plastic eating fungi Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:52:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Pestalotiopsis Microspora: Fungus That Eats Plastic Bottles Lives in The Rain Forest https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pestalotiopsis-microspora-pet-bottles-20120327/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pestalotiopsis-microspora-pet-bottles-20120327/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:52:18 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=23668 Just when you thought that the miracles of the Amazonian forest are all known to man, a team of Yale researchers has just found out that a certain fungus living in the rain forest can actually cure one of the biggest illness and inventions of the 20th century: PET plastics, or polyurethane. Pestalotiopsis microspora is […]

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