Scientists have discovered a bacteria that’s evolved to eat PET: https://t.co/63oDubUzBG pic.twitter.com/xtCIGeHmqr

— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) March 11, 2016

“…PET was only invented about 70 years ago. That means the bacteria must have evolved the ability to consume the plastic over the intervening decades.”

Maybe some good news for the ocean.