Is Plastic Fantastic? Next Journal Club on 05th October.

The Scientific Journal Club meets on Thursday, 5^th October, 12-1pm in the XY-Café to discuss plastic waste. We will be looking at the scale of the problem and a suggested partial solution, plastic-eating bacteria.

The problem:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40654915

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782

Plastic-eating bacteria:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6278/1196