Microbial Enzyme Could Make Plastics Biodegradable
"Several million tons of styrene are produced and transported every year," says Dirk Tischler. "In the process, some of it also gets released unintentionally into the environment." This is not the only source of styrene in the environment, however: It occurs naturally in coal tar and lignite tar, can occur in traces in essential oils from some plants and is formed during the decomposition of pla