microbes living in sewage sludge. The enzyme could be used by wastewater treatment plants to break apart microplastic ...

Microbes are hungry, all the time. They live everywhere, in enormous numbers. We might not see them with the naked eye, but ...

Plastic pollution is a global problem, and much of it comes from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common plastic used in ...

A bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a new study finds. Scientists ...

Microbes are hungry ... grow on plastics littered throughout urban rivers and wastewater systems. But exactly what these Comamonas bacteria are doing has ... Using treated plant waste as a ...

In findings published today (Sept. 19) in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, the researchers report that the bacteria Salmonella enterica was detected in samples from two wastewater treatment ...

Now, researchers report in Environmental Science & Technology that they have discovered an enzyme that breaks apart PET in a rather unusual place: microbes living in sewage sludge. The enzyme could be ...