Soil Types; Bacteria; Microbes and More; Materials Science; Engineering and Construction; Inorganic Chemistry; Recycling and Waste; Sustainability; Geochemistry

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed an artificial ‘worm gut’ to break down plastics, offering hope for a nature-inspired method to tackle the global plastic pollution problem. By feeding worms with plastics and cultivating microbes found in their guts, researchers from NTU’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering … Read more