00:00this might not look like much but it could literally change humanity's future plastics
00:08have been a problem for a while with microplastics now having been found inside the human body still
00:13our reliance on plastics continues to grow pointing to a huge problem and source of
00:18growing concern for human health and the health of our planet's ecosystems enter this new type
00:23of plastic one that literally eats itself once it's no longer needed it was created using the
00:29bacillus subtilis bacteria a microorganism capable of eating plastic researchers engineered it to
00:35survive the high heat plastic production process resulting in a product which has plastic eating
00:40bacteria built right into it once the plastic has been used and is ready to be discarded it only
00:45needs nutrients and moisture to activate the bacteria which then literally consumes the plastic this could
00:51be the solution we've been looking for with regards to solving the plastic crisis especially as it's
00:56becoming increasingly clear the recycling simply isn't effective enough what's more the researchers
01:01say that there's another wild side effect of adding this bacteria to plastic products they say the
01:06resulting plastic is actually stronger and stretches better than conventional varieties
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