科学家发现了一种能降解常用聚酯塑料的细茵,但尚未确定其潜在用途。大自然已经进化出一种“吃”塑料的细菌,以抗击那些倾倒入土壤、河流和海洋的大堆污染物。这是科学界首次发现这种细菌。根据在《科学》期刊上发表的一份研究报告,一个日本研究小组描述了一种能够打破塑料分子键的细菌。这种全球最常见的塑料学名为聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯,也被称为“PET”塑料或聚酯塑料。这个日本研究小组筛选了上百个聚酯塑料污染样品后,发现了一个以塑料为食的有机生 Scientists have discovered a bacteria that can degrade commonly used polyester plastics, but its potential use has not yet been determined. Nature has evolved a kind of “eat” plastic bacterium to fight the heaps of pollutants that have poured into the soil, rivers and oceans. This is the first time the scientific community has discovered this bacterium. According to a study published in the journal Science, a Japanese research team describes a bacterium that breaks the plastic molecular bonds. The world’s most common plastics name is polyethylene terephthalate, also known as “PET” plastic or polyester plastic. The Japanese team screened hundreds of polyester plastic contaminated samples and found that a plastic-eating organic students