Posts byIna Hollerer

Eat (y)our plastics!

Can plastic-degrading bacteria help us to get rid of all that plastic waste?

The world has a pretty heavy plastic problem. Since the invention of plastic in the late 19th century, more than 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste have been globally generated—almost one ton per person currently living on Earth. Even more shockingly, 80 percent of it has ended up in landfills, or worse, in the environment as litter,