The Yale University designed a program called Rainforest Expedition and laboratory educational program. This program is to engage undergraduate students in discovery-based research, the group explored for plants and they learned the micro- organisms within their tissue. In their search students and professors from Yale University found a plastic eating fungi in the Amazon forest which can degrade and utilize the common plastic polyurethane (PUR).
They identified several active organisms including 2 different quarantines of Microspore and Pestalotiopsis with the ability to powerfully reduce and utilize plastic polyurethane (PUR) as the sole carbon source when grown anaerobically, a unique observation among reported plastic polyurethane (PUR) biodegradation activities.
The Yale University team has published its findings plastic eating fungi in the article ‘Biodegradation of Polyester Polyurethane by Entophytic fungi’ in Applied and Environmental Microbiology journal.
Plastic has become an environmental problem. It is not problem only to environment but also to satellites. It states that, “Invisible to Satellites, poorly understood by scientist. Plastic waste pollutes the rivers and lands.
Yale University has found good solution for this problem. Fungi can survive on Polyurethane and we can live in an oxygen free environment.
