{"id":800,"date":"2023-10-24T03:58:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/chinese-scientists-have-found-a-plastic-eating-fungus\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T19:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:31:06","slug":"chinese-scientists-have-found-a-plastic-eating-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-scientists-have-found-a-plastic-eating-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Scientists Have Found A Plastic-Eating Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nowadays, humans are producing ever greater amounts of plastic<\/a> \u2013 much of which ends up as garbage. What\u2019s more, because plastic does not break down in the same way as other organic materials, it can persist in the environment over extremely long periods<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nowadays, humans are producing ever greater amounts of plastics\u2013 much of which ends up as garbage. What\u2019s more, because plastic does not break down in the same way as other organic materials, it can persist in the environment over extremely long periods of time. Plastics is used in the manufacture of an astonishing variety of materials: from the phone or computer on which you\u2019re reading this article, to the car, bus or bike you use to get around, and even in many clothes, plastics are ubiquitous in the modern world.<\/p>\n

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