16 year old works out how to degrade plastic bags in weeks!
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009A story with some currency today but really incredible. After all the fuss about the use of plastics and the clamp-down on the use 
of plastic carrier bags, a schoolboy from Canada working on a science project has worked out what the world’s chemists could not. Daniel Burd isolated the bacteria that will degrade plastic in a few weeks rather than the tens of thousands of years predicted. Dan has developed a method that can easily be adapted to industrial applications.
Read more at The Record website.
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