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.