04 Jun 2024 --- Scientists have discovered a sea fungus capable of breaking down PE after being exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. The researchers, including Dutch marine microbiologists at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), believe that many more plastic degrading fungi are living in deeper parts of the ocean. Published in the scientific journal Science of the Total Environment, the study spotlights the fungus Parengyodontium album, which lives together with other marine microbes in thin layers on plastic litter in the ocean.
