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‘Bacteria Cocktail’ Could Add Sustainability to Plastic Packaging

A Hungarian company called Poliloop has found a way to ‘eat’ single-use plastic pollution.

The amount of plastic in the oceans is alarming, and pharmaceutical packaging certainly isn’t helping the situation. Luckily, a recent Yahoo! News article reported on a new development that could add some sustainability to single-use plastics. A team of scientists in Hungary created a ‘bacteria cocktail’ that consumes plastic in just seven weeks without any additional processing or chemical treatments.

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