Plastic is part of our everyday life. Diabetics use plastic for their disposable syringes; arthritis patients use plastic for their hips. However plastic has also become a huge problem with our world today as waste.

With the low cost and ease of manufacture and consumption of plastics it has increased dramatically and led to numerous ecological and economic concerns.

When plastic reaches our water it becomes a threat to the animals. In the North Pacific there is an area the size of Texas, possibly twice the size, called the “trash vortex” which contains disgarded plastic materials.

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Several of the organisms found, have the ability to degrade plastic in both solid and liquid form. The fungi were also able to degrade the plastic in aerobic and anaerobic conditions. This study is huge in solving our waste problem. 

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