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This Pizza Ingredient Can Clean Up Our Oceans!

Tuesday 30 June 2026 β€’Science News for Students
This Pizza Ingredient Can Clean Up Our Oceans!

Photo: CDC / Unsplash

Scientists have discovered that ordinary baker's yeast can act like a tiny super-vacuum to suck microplastics [microscopic bits of plastic waste] right out of dirty water! This means the very same ingredient that makes your pizza dough rise could help save our oceans and sea creatures. Isn't it amazing that a tiny kitchen ingredient could solve one of the planet's biggest messes?
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