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• Engineered Living Plastic Uses Cooperative Bacterial Enzymes to Self-Destruct Completely Within Six Days

  Published: May 1, 2026

  Section: Research

  Researchers have developed a "living plastic" embedded with dormant bacterial spores that can be triggered to fully degrade the material in less than a week. This biotechnological...

• Crab shell waste discovery allows researchers to control degradation rates of marine biodegradable plastics

  Published: Apr 25, 2026

  Section: Technology

  Scientists at Gunma University have demonstrated that chitin from discarded crab shells can slow the decomposition of PHBV plastics in seawater. By remodeling the microbial "plasti...