American researchers have developed a marine bacteria that may help solve plastics pollution of the world’s oceans when laboratory results showed their ability to break down plastics. Researchers from the United States North Carolina State University “have successfully engineered a marine microorganism that can break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET),” or plastics commonly used as packaging of many consumer goods, Biotech Updates, the online weekly publication of International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), cited in its September 20 issue.

Cayon, M. T. (2023, September 24). US researchers engineered bacteria that can break down plastics in oceans. Business Mirror, p. A5.