2025/02/26
Keio University
A research group from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University, consisting of Kao Yamamoto (a fourth-year student in the Department of Biosciences and Informatics), Ying Huang (a researcher at the Keio Leading-edge Laboratory of Science and Technology (KLL)), and Professor Kenji Miyamoto, has successfully isolated microorganisms that completely decompose the biodegradable plastic Green Planet (hereinafter GP), industrially produced by Kaneka Corporation, in just a few days. Although GP exhibits high biodegradability compared to other biodegradable plastics, its decomposition takes time, creating a demand for technology that can break it down more rapidly. This achievement significantly shortens the decomposition time of GP and is an important step toward realizing the on-site decomposition of used GP products. These findings will be presented at the annual meeting of the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry on March 8, 2025.
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