Ocean Microbes Chomp on Plastics

This albatross could use some help from plastic-digesting bacteria to save its nest from marine debris

Looks like there are bacteria out in the ocean that consider plastic bags to be fine dining. Science writer Gwyneth Dickey Zaikab reports in a recent Nature article that scientists at the 5th International Marine Debris Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, have discovered microbes that gather on plastic debris in the Sargasso Sea. Marine microbiologist Tracy [...]