An algae for plastic
a method has been developed by a group of Japanese research scientists that uses blue-green algae to remove carbon dioxide from the air and produce large amounts of a type of biodegradable plastic. The findings can go a long way in cutting down the emission of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. The group comprises scientists from the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, and the agency of industrial science and technology's National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Japan.
The group had created a line of blue-green algae through genetic engineering in 1996. The algae carries the gene for an enzyme that makes polyhydroxybutyric acid