Check out this interesting article on recycling Styrofoam. Thanks to a particular soil-based bacteria, we can now convert Styrofoam oil into PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates), which can be used make (among other things) eating utensils. Therefore, instead of burying Styrofoam in landfills for future archaeologists to find, we "bio-degrade" it into earth-friendly compounds.
Progress comes in tiny steps!
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Great idea!
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