We apply polyurethan to make just about everything — garden hosiery , article of furniture , the entireness of my local 99 - centime store . It ’s easy to get , durable , and dirt cheap . What it is n’t is recyclable — there is n’t a single natural process that disclose it down . That is until a newly - discovered Amazonian fungus take a sharpness .
Pestalotiopsis microspora ( not present ) is a occupier of the Ecuadorian rain forest and was discovered by a group of bookman researchers led by molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel as part of Yale ’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory . It ’s the first fungus species to be able-bodied to survive entirely on polyurethane and , more significantly , able-bodied to do so in anaerobic conditions — the same conditions found in the bottom of landfills . This make the fungus a premier nominee for bioremediation projects that could finally provide an option to just burying the plastic and hoping for the good . [ Fastcoexist ]
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