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April 3, 2020
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There may be a small answer to one of the biggest problems on the planet. German researchers report in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology that they have identified and characterized a strain of bacteria capable of degrading some of the chemical building blocks of polyurethane...In 2015, polyurethane products alone accounted for 3.5 million tons of the plastics produced in Europe. 

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