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Published online 2 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021125-12
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Sugar turns plastics biodegradable
Bacteria make a meal of sweetened polythene and polystyrene.
Chemists in India are lacing plastics with sugar to make them palatable to soil bacteria1. The plastics, which normally survive for decades in landfills, start to biodegrade within days.
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