
A new microorganism munches on cardboard to create a source of energy.
If your home looks anything like mine, Jeff Bezos should be paying rent. Cardboard Amazon boxes have taken over. Tiny boxes. Unusable boxes. Boxes that are painstakingly designed to be efficient and recyclable, sure, but boxes that end up in the trash anyway. The problem isn’t that you or I don’t recycle them. The problem is that recycling centers, with so much excess cardboard, just toss the material into a dump.
Source:
Fast Company