amazon yeast chews up plastic (box, material, plasma, sound)

[fibonacci]

Biodegradation of Polyester Polyurethane by Endophytic Fungi

Wonder if there are any smart bioengineers out there that foul isolate and engineer the enzyme to produce biofuels from plastic garbage. Another reason yet we need to save the rain forests, who knows what other hidden treasures they have.

[uggabugga]

that's pretty cool.

Two Pestalotiopsis microspora isolates were uniquely able to grow on PUR as the sole carbon source under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions.

[Tek_Freek]

A box full of this at every store to throw our plastic containers in would be great!

[Lije Baley]

Sounds great.....until it escapes the lab and then into the environment where your iPad, your Android phone and that 60" plasma you're still paying for turn into smelly piles of yeast plant poop.

This tin-foil hat message brought to you by Larry Niven's award-winning "Ringworld" sci-fi series, which describes a bacteria which eats superconducting material which in turn helps to bring down an entire civilization.......

[Nozzferrahhtoo]

Any useful byproducts from the process?

Says me sitting here having a big drink of by product from the process of certain other yeasts

[Six Foot Three]

Originally Posted by fibonacci

Biodegradation of Polyester Polyurethane by Endophytic Fungi

Wonder if there are any smart bioengineers out there that foul isolate and engineer the enzyme to produce biofuels from plastic garbage. Another reason yet we need to save the rain forests, who knows what other hidden treasures they have.

Seems like i've read somewhere about a giant patch of plastic(s) some hundreds of square miles across floating in the pacific as maybe this could be used to clean it up in the future someday.

[fibonacci]

Originally Posted by Nozzferrahhtoo

Any useful byproducts from the process?

Says me sitting here having a big drink of by product from the process of certain other yeasts

Not yet. Someone needs to bioengineer this yeast to do it. Imagine if they engineered it to produce diesel. That would automatically worth billions.

[linicx]

Spealmg of plastice. I recently bought ink pens called B2P. The Bottle to Pen is made from recycled plastic bottles.