Bacteria Turn Styrofoam into Biodegradable Plastic

by David Biello ScientificAmerican.com, 27 Feb 2006 Biologists at the University College Dublin in Ireland have found that a strain of Pseudomonas putida bacteria can exist quite happily on a diet of pure styrene oil -- the oil remnant of superheated Styrofoam -- and, in the process, turn the environmental problem into a useful, biodegradable plastic. Read more