The bacteria around the world: Evolution to Eat Plastics

Research scans more than 200 million genes found in environmentally extracted DNA samples and found in 30,000 different enzymes that can eat 10 different types of plastic.

The study is the first global estimate of the potential for eating plastic from bacteria and found that one in four of these organisms contained appropriate enzymes, reports The Guardian, translated Periscope.

Researchers found that the number and type of enzymes they discovered were compatible with the quantity and type of plastic pollution at different locations.

Millions of tons of plastic are thrown into the environment each year, with pollution already sweeping the planet. /Periscope