Scientists from the Chinese academy of sciences have found "fungi that eat plastic"
Scientists from the Chinese academy of sciences have found "fungi that eat plastic"
Chinese scientists have made significant breakthrough in the field of biodegradable plastic, the researchers found that for the first time to the tower - a new strain of high efficient degradation of polyurethane plastic aspergillus, the fungus is expected to become the future governance white pollution "tool". The results have been published in the international journal environmental pollution.
Polyurethane material is one of the fastest growing varieties in modern plastics industry. It is widely used in industrial, medical, construction and automobile industries, which brings about waste pollution environment and other problems. At present, most of the waste plastics are mainly landfill and incineration, but the former occupies land resources and pollutes groundwater, while the latter increases carbon emissions and causes air pollution. This kind of degradation cost is high and can produce secondary pollution, and environmental biodegradation is still a difficult problem in global plastic pollution research.
Research indicates that under the effect of "tower bin aspergillus", originally in the natural environment is hard to degradation of plastic, two weeks, you can clearly see the biodegradation process, two months after the basic culture medium on the plastic polymer disappear.
In the future, researchers will gradually determine the fungal mass rapid propagation and biodegradable plastic ideal conditions, for industrial use of fungal degradation of plastic garbage, governance, laying a foundation for plastic garbage pollution.
