Lulu Raka's colleagues find ways to remove the pollution of bacterial microplastics

Bacteria naturally tend to come together and climb to the surface, causing a substance called “biofilm” and we see it every morning when we share teeth, for example.

Researchers from Hong Kong's Polytechnic University want to use sticky bacteria and create microbes networks that can catch micro-plastics in contaminated water to form an available recycling point, writes The Guardian.

Although these findings, presented at the annual conference of the Microbiology Society, are still preliminary, these inventions can pave the way for reducing the level of microplastics in nature.

“It is necessary to develop effective solutions that catch, collect and even recycle these micro-plastics to stop “lasming” of our natural environments,” said Sylvia Lang Liu, microbiology researcher. /Periscope