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RE: Sustainable Development #13 Plastic Pollution

I'm not being argumentative here, honestly providing talking points, but here is the result of a Google Search. It is a bacteria, and they also claim Wax Worms eat plastics. Now, I didn't find any extremely official sites talking about it so I wanted you to be able to use your own discernment on the search results if you felt like following up the conversation. Again, thank you for bring this topic up in this community! Very important.

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There seems to be two enzymes produced by a bacteria (Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6) that can do the job together, according to Science: "By screening natural microbial communities exposed to PET in the environment, we isolated a novel bacterium, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, that is able to use PET as its major energy and carbon source. When grown on PET, this strain produces two enzymes capable of hydrolyzing PET and the reaction intermediate, mono(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalic acid. Both enzymes are required to enzymatically convert PET efficiently into its two environmentally benign monomers, terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol." http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6278/1196

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