Plastic-Degrading Microbial Consortia from a Wastewater Treatment Plant
Andrea Salini, Luca Zuliani, Paolo Matteo Gonnelli, Marco Orlando, Andrea Odoardo, Daniele Ragno, Martina Aulitto, Claudio Zaccone, Salvatore Fusco, Lazaros Papadopoulos · 2024
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Description
Andrea Salini and a large team hunt plastic eating germ groups in sludge from a town waste water plant. Plastic waste piles up world wide, and reuse methods stay weak. Sludge is soaked in tiny plastic bits, so its germs may hold tools that cut plastic.
Groups grown for months on two soft plastics broke one kind down well, as scans showed clear weight loss in its chains. The other, from used drink bottles, held firm. Heat shaped which germs won out. Warm groups also gained likely cutter genes. Sludge may seed future plastic cleanup tools.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Andrea Salini, Luca Zuliani, Paolo Matteo Gonnelli, Marco Orlando, Andrea Odoardo, Daniele Ragno, Martina Aulitto, Claudio Zaccone, Salvatore Fusco, Lazaros Papadopoulos |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |