Meet the microbes that could eat your trash - Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet

 

Explore the possibility of plastivores organisms that can eat and break down plastic helping reduce the plastic waste on Earth.
Each year humanity produces roughly 400 million tons of plastic, 80% of which is discarded as trash. Of that plastic waste, only one-tenth is recycled.
60% gets…

Source: TED-Ed (2022-07-12)