The world has produced over nine billion tons of plastic since the 1950s, with another 400 million tons added each year.

However, researchers have come up with a sci-fi like solution. By incorporating spores of plastic-eating bacteria they've developed a plastic that can self-destruct. The spores remain dormant ...

Subscribe for FREE “The fact that the bacteria are actually transmitted to the next generation of fungi via the spores was a breakthrough in our research.” After the injection of the E. coli bacteria, ...

One early project, dubbed "Operation Vegetarian," investigated the practicality of dropping linseed cakes containing anthrax bacterial spores over Germany that would kill any cattle that ate them.