On: Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag In 3 Months

[biohacker42]

They must not have looked very hard: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=23...

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It's worth noting that this paper refers to polyethylene glycol, which is not the stuff plastic bags are made from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol

[Confusion → biohacker42]

It's doubtful a high school student and teacher know where to look. They should have asked someone in, only remotely related, research for a quick search to dig up these kinds of papers.

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The above link is the top search result from a search for bacteria and polyethylene: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=bacteria+polyethylene&...