<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c9a30ea9-3d7b-4c1f-a45a-7dacebdec46d/1FDA8106-A40F-4101-BA5F-687C164C564C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic" href="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mnn.com/img/1849394E-E8DE-4258-B63C-2490CD609B4A" alt="Karl Burkart" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic"><H1>Boy discovers microbe that eats plastic</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic"><DIV id="story-page-teaser">PhDs have been searching for a solution to the plastic waste problem, and this 16-year-old finds the answer.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic"><DIV class="submitted">Fri, Jun 12 2009 at 2:26 AM EST</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic"><DIV>It's not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last <STRIKE>month's</STRIKE> May's <A href="http://news.therecord.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/354044" target="_blank" class="external">Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo</A>, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic"><DIV>NOTE: there are TWO high school students who discovered plastic-consuming microorganisms. The first was Daniel Burd (last year). The second was <A href="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/high-school-girl-discovers-styrofoam-eating-bacterium">Tseng I-Ching</A> (last month), a high school student in Taiwan.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic"><DIV>Could those microorganisms be bred to do the job faster?</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1FDA8106-A40F-4101-BA5F-687C164C564C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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