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http://www.asahi.com/english/politics/K2003042200354.html

 

Biologists find use for Panda dung

 

The Asahi Shimbun

 

Question: What eats shoots and leaves, mates once in a

blue moon and produces dung that can dissolve

household garbage better than anything the experts

have ever come up with? Answer: the humble panda.

 

A research team at Kitasato University has discovered

a strain of bacteria in panda droppings that can break

down organic garbage more efficiently than any

commercially produced garbage decomposer.

 

Similar to that found in natto, the bacteria can even

digest the more unpalatable items, such as wheat bran,

which are generally recycled or added to animal feed.

 

Led by professor emeritus Fumiaki Taguchi, the

university microbiologists began researching panda

dung when they received a bucketful from Ueno Zoo

nearly five years ago.

 

The team detected 270 kinds of microbes, which were

divided into 40 categories, according to their ability

to decompose fat, protein and sugar. The team singled

out five strains able to survive 70-degree plus

temperatures. After adding the selected bacteria to a

commercial garbage decomposer, the researchers set it

to work on 70 to 100 kilograms of vegetable waste and

sat back to wait.

 

Seventeen weeks later, only 3 kilograms of the

original waste remained. The rest had broken down into

water and carbon dioxide. By contrast, commercial

products have around an 80 percent success

rate.(IHT/Asahi: April 22,2003)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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