Biotechnology
Nylon Eaters – Microscopic Helpers Recycle Plastic Waste
A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences at Forschungszentrum Jülich develop a bacterium that “eats” individual building blocks of different types of nylon and converts them into value-added products. The results of this research will help improve nylon recycling and have just been published in the journal Nature Microbiology.