Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean. Researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa have recently discovered that many species of fungi isolated from Hawai'i's nearshore environment have the ability to degrade plastic, and some can be conditioned to do it faster.
This would be such an interesting development, like something from a sci-fi novel. Can we engineer something to eat oil, gasoline perhaps? That’d be wild.