The question is, “What’s a fungus eating plastic called?”
We generate several tons of waste a day and plastic’s the
major pollutant and cannot be broken break down easily or in an environmental
friendly way.
However, the answer to rid ourselves of this plastic
pollutant may here already, as samples taken from a rubbish dump outside
Islamabad in Pakistan showed a soil fungus feeding on plastic.
It’s called ‘Aspergillus Tubingensis.’
A fungus that lives in soil that seems to have a taste for
plastic.
This is great news for the planet, but let’s hope it doesn’t
get a taste for rubber.
“Great, there goes my wheels.” (tyres for those who don’t get it)
It makes you wonder what the other funguses eat?
So, what do you think?
Author: Charmain Ingleton
