Plastic- munching bacteria offer hope for recycling
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Our lakes, rivers and oceans are increasingly clogged with plastic, plus trillions of microscopic fragments thereof, from all the useful and disturbingly durable products made possible by the petroleum industry. This deluge of waste has grown exponentially over 60 years. Some 10 million tons of bottles, nets, bags, buckets and food wrappings are deliberately or indifferently dumped each year into our waterways, where they entangle and kill marine life and damage the organs of the creatures, including, possibly, humans, that ingest them.
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Buchanan, M. (2022, July 4). Plastic- munching bacteria offer hope for recycling. BusinessWorld, p. S1/7
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