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Paper alert!
We have created a bacterium that eats plastic! We named it PETBuster! Great work by PhD student Dekel Freund @dekel-freund.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A synthetic bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the fourth most commonly used plastic worldwide. Like all plastics, post-consumer PET is poorly managed and accumulates in the environment, posing significant ecolo...