Watch out plastic waste...
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Very interesting.
Plastic-Eating Fungi Found in the Amazon May Solve World’s Waste Problem:
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Cool! Very useful...as long as they don't escape and develop an appetite for all the latest underground plastic cabling, ducting, polyethylene gas mains etc.
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According to the article, it appears this organism prefers polyurethane. Who knows, it could develop a taste for other plastics.
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I don't mean to knock the scientists at all, they're looking for a solution to a problem that's already with us - good luck to them.
But the "Solves World's Waste Problem" headline and reporting? - kind of has a subtext of; "Yippee, so it's OK to carry on producing lots of unnecessary junk, after all". Would a report about the benefits of buying food at a farmer's market without all the long distance transport, polystyrene trays and clingfilm get as much publicity? (if you are one of the lucky few that has one nearby) - I doubt it somehow.BTW - the article was a bit too technical for me. What is it exactly that they turn the plastic into? Does it taste good?
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