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  • Plastic-Eating Fungi Found in the Amazon May Solve World’s Waste Problem

    03/16/2012 10:58:09 AM PDT · by Twotone · 26 replies · 3+ views
    PSFK.com ^ | March 7, 2012 | Emma Hutchings
    A group of students and professors from Yale University have found a fungi in the Amazon rainforest that can degrade and utilize the common plastic polyurethane (PUR). As part of the university’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory educational program, designed to engage undergraduate students in discovery-based research, the group searched for plants and cultured the micro-organisms within their tissue.