The fungus among us: A new way of decomposing BPA-containing plastic

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 16:07 in Earth & Climate

Just as cooking helps people digest food, pretreating polycarbonate plastic - source of a huge environmental headache because of its bisphenol A (BPA) content - may be the key to disposing of the waste in an eco-friendly way, scientists have found. Their new study is in ACS' Biomacromolecules.

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