A 16-year-old science fair contestant has found a way to decompose a plastic bag in three months – something that until now was thought to take thousands of years to degrade. Daniel Burd, a Waterloo, Ontario high school junior used a concoction of landfill dirt, yeast, tap water and ground plastic to create plastic-munching microbes from the bacterial genus Pseudomonas and the genus Sphingomonas. The teen, who may have solved one of the most problematic environmental issues of our age, says that his project could easily be replicated on an industrial scale. Maybe for his senior science fair project, he can help us out with a cure for cancer?
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I didn’t agree with you first, but last paragraph makes sense for me
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