Yale Discovers Fungus That Eats Palstic

Students at Yale University, part of the Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, recently discovered a fungus in the Amazonian rainforest that naturally eats polyurethane and breaks it down into carbon. This is the first fungus species, identified by the group as Pestalotiopsis microspore, that has a steady diet of polyurethane alone. Most impactful is that it can grow in an oxygen free environment, which will enable the fungus to do it's dining in the deepest regions of our landfills.

At the same time, we should look more closer at what they do in in the Netherlands and the Philippines; plastics used in supermarkets to package food are already biodegradable.