Amazonian Mushroom Eats Indestructible Plastics

The non-biodegradable polyurethane that environmentalists have been sighing over for decades may have met its match in fungus. Student researchers from Yale have discovered that Pestalotiopsis microspora (not shown) not only loves munching on the plastic that goes into everything from garden hoses to disposable bottles, but it can do it almost anywhere—even the depths of a landfill. —MN

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    “ It’s the first fungus species to be able to survive exclusively on polyurethane and, more importantly, able to do so...

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    O_o That’s just… amazing.

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    Excellent, yes, let’s start bringing these things in!

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