Researchers at the University of Missouri have shown that genetically modified algae are able to remove 91.4 % of the microplastics from the water in just sixty minutes. The work, published in Nature Communications, not only offers an amazing catch rate in the laboratory — 0.1 grams of microparticles per gram of biomass — but proposes a system, baptized as RUMBA, that aspires to integrate wastewater treatment with the reuse of recovered plastic.…
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Researchers at the University of Missouri have shown that genetically modified algae are able to remove 91.4 % of the microplastics from the water in just sixty minutes. The work, published in Nature Communications, not only offers an amazing catch rate in the laboratory — 0.1 grams of microparticles per gram of biomass — but proposes a system, baptized as RUMBA, that aspires to integrate wastewater treatment with the reuse of recovered plastic.…