The Secret Ingredient to Recycle Plastic Bottles

Scientists have been developing a way to break down plastic bottles. The building material, called poly etheline terra thalate into the basic sub unit called tera thalic acid. Researchers tested out bacteria by mixing them with terathalic id in storing them at 37 degrees celsius. After a day, about 79 % of the acid had been converted into vandillon.

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[Trivia Question]

Minnesota paper waste ball

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/worlds-largest-wad-paper-0

[Fact Off]

Palimpsests (reusing parchment, but also documenting microbes)

https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/the-history-of-vellum-and-parchment

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-monks-remixed-technology-in-the-middle-ages/373956/

http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/about/imaging/