Scientists in Germany have identified a type of fungi that is capable of breaking down synthetic plastics, offering a potential new weapon in the global fight against plastic pollution. A team at ...

Polypropylene, a hard-to-recycle plastic, has successfully been ... Published April 14 in npj Materials Degradation, two common strains of fungi were used to successfully biodegrade polypropylene ...

Hiro Industries, a start-up founded by Finnish farmer Tero Isokauppila and entrepreneur Miki Agrawal, is developing a solution to the plastic crisis by using fungi to eat plastic in landfills.

Read more: Plastic-eating fungi discovered in Swiss Alps SWI ... was that quite a large fraction of our tested microbes could degrade at least one of the biodegradable plastics.

However, microbial plastic degradation needs temperatures above 20°C ... offered an alternative approach that uses strains of bacteria and fungi isolated from alpine and Arctic environments to ...

Hiro Industries, a start-up founded by Finnish farmer Tero Isokauppila and entrepreneur Miki Agrawal, is developing a solution to the plastic crisis by using fungi to eat plastic in landfills.