What to do if you better wash dishes and there aren’t enough to justify running the dishwasher?

Why, use a sponge, dishwashing liquid, and a bit of elbow grease, of course.

But both environmental experts and scientists are now calling time-out on that plan.

woman handwashing plates

Furtwangen University professor of microbiology Marckus Egert admits the findings were shocking for him and his team.

“No one had ever seen bacteria sitting inside a sponge.

One problem we have with bacteria and microbes is that we cannot see them.

Pink sponge in the kitchen sink

And if you don’t see them, you don’t believe they are there.”