Bacteria
There’s good bacteria and bad bacteria – and the good bacteria is helping us with sustainable innovation. Plastic-eating bacteria have been discovered near a bottle recycling plant in Japan and a polluted site in Houston, Texas. These microbes digest PET, the most common plastic waste. Now German scientists have found bacteria that eat polyurethane used in sneakers, a harder to recycle plastic. And it’s not just waste solutions that bacteria bring. Nature's Fynd, backed by $80 million from Bill Gates and Al Gore, has just started production of alternative protein grown from bacteria that lives in Yellowstone geothermal hot springs.
— Wayne Visser
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