Microbes Can Make Omega-3 from Microplastics

TEHRAN (FNA)- Increasing abundance of plastic waste has alarmed the society, the environmental fate of microplastics has been difficult to trace. A research group used carbon isotope labeling to follow the fate of polyethylene in the food chain. To the researchers' surprise, plastic carbon was transformed into beneficial fatty acids, omega-3 and omega-6, by the microbes originating from humic lakes.