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Now a team at Kyoto University has by rummaging around in piles of waste found a plastic munching microbe. The bacterium which was found at a waste site where plastic had been dumped is the first that is known to attack polyurethane. Plastic Eating Bacteria Show Way To Recycle Plastic Bottles Sustainably Research Chemistry World If more bacteria began eating plastic in the wild then products and structures designed to last many years could come under threat. Plastic eating bacteria . Scientists have supercharged how a plastic-eating bacteria gobbles up plastic - and it could help solve the pollution problem. The bacteria Ideonella sakaiensis was only able to eat a particular kind of plastic called PET from which bottles are commonly made and it could not do so nearly fast enough to mitigate the. Researchers have discovered two strains of plastic-eating bacteria from the wetlands of Greater Noida an advance that may lead to eco-friendly alternative clean-up. Is it cutting d...