Marine bacteria bite into plastic pollution

Plastic floating with fish

24 October 2023
Researchers at Hokkaido University, working with colleagues at the Mitsubishi Chemical Group in Japan claim to have determined Bacteria found in the sea can degrade plastics that would otherwise resist microbial breakdown in marine environments.

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