Using the natural properties of fungi, plastics can break down naturally within weeks.

Scientists at Kew Gardens, the Royal Botanic Gardens, say fungi may be the key to humans' battle against plastic waste, the Irish newspaper New Island Weekly reported.
Qiuyuan published the first State of the World's Fungi report, which states that plastics can break down naturally within weeks, not years, if the natural properties of fungi are used and developed.
, Qiu yuan and a team of more than 100 scientists from 18 countries completed the report, showing how different organisms can break down plastic, clean up radioactive material and even speed up the production of biomass diesel.
"It's really exciting because it's well known that plastic pollution is such an environmental challenge, " senior scientist Lich Chiuyuan said on Monday.
If fungal decomposition can be a viable solution, that's great.
we are in the early stages of research, but I hope to see the benefits of fungi 'eating' plastic in five to 10 years.
" According to a new investigation by The Telegraph, waste plastic sent to Poland for recycling is actually burning and spewing highly toxic gas into the atmosphere. The report also seeks to raise the profile of the fungus, pointing to its importance in beer (yeast), penicillin, detergent and cheese,
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the most well-known type of fungal, mushrooms, are eaten by people around the world, and its edible varieties have a market value of 32.5 billion pounds.
to find out which species are truly extinct and which are not known to the public for lack of investigation and record," the Royal Botanic Gardens has launched a public science project to find fungi.
campaign urges the British public to help identify and document species of different fungi to increase the 1,200 species that have been recorded.
it is believed that about 93 percent of fungi are currently unknown to the science, with an estimated number of nearly 3 million species, six times the number already planted. "We have to change our understanding of fungi, but we know very little about fungi, " said Estelle Gera, a senior fungalologist at the
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we want to know which ecosystems are threatened and where to look for the known fungal species? However, we really know very little about this.
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