Researchers try to engineer yeast to eat the way out of plastic pollution

Researchers try to engineer yeast to eat the way out of plastic pollution



A student looks on as a professor points at a whiteboard. Plastic bottles crowd the foreground of the image.

Microplastics make their way into the soil, waterways and the food chain. Researchers at Carleton University are taking their inspiration from bread and beer to find a natural way to break down plastic pollution.

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