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Plastic-Eating Fungus discovered, possible use in landfills

What's Hawt: "Researchers at Yale University have discovered a fungus that is capable of eating polyurethane plastics."

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C_Menz4451d ago

Will be great if this pans out to be useful. Although I wonder what the fungus breaks plastic down into? Isn't plastic derived from oil...

Either way it would benefit just about every community. Take for example where im at currently(St. Thomas) which is an island. The landfill here you see when you drive past it is about 1/3 the size of the central mountain on the island and is gigantic. At first when you see it, it just looks like a barren mountain until you realize what it really is. You would think that a lot of the garbage in it is plastic that will hardly breakdown over decades.

Speed-Racer4451d ago

Oh you're from the Caribbean as well huh. I'm from Trinidad and Tobago.

C_Menz4451d ago

I've been here on vacation for the past month. Come here every year pretty much. We were actually looking into going to Tobago at some point since it looks like it would fit our speed. I might move down here as well since I would already have a place to stay at with a family friend.

One of the reasons I had limited internet for the past few weeks :/

PLASTICA-MAN4451d ago

Oh is there a vaccine for me?

Speed-Racer4451d ago

Definitely good news if they could use this to destroy plastic waste.

BeastOrange4451d ago

Wonder how they could use this to possibly develop some organism to break down radio active material,,,like in Japan

C_Menz4451d ago

There are already several types of organisms already found to do this. Some help cause the waste to breakdown sooner over long periods of time while others are a bit more "aggressive".

BeastOrange4451d ago

Really? I havent heard of of any but that is great if they do. Can you PM a link if you have one handy. The bad part I think is there is no way to convert radioactivity,,if an organism eats it then it becomes radioactive, but possibly easier to clean up.

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James Webb Space Telescope finds 'extremely red' supermassive black hole growing

The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.

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15 Tips & Settings to Get the Most Out of Vision Pro

Vision Pro is here and it’s a surprisingly capable device. Apple has also loaded the headset with a ton of options and features that aren’t obvious at first glance.

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Odysseus mission to be cut short after moon lander's sideways touchdown

Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.

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