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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Come on asteroid where the fuck are you….

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Now I can make a spork?

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I am longing for plastic-eating bacteria to be released into the wild. There are other materials we can use.

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We first need a way to use them to consume plastic in a controlled manner. There are things that simply would not be possible without these polymers and that we do not want destroyed.

[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There are plastic eating microorganisms, both fungi, and bacteria.

But, they take a long time to break down plastic. I've had a fungus that can digest plastic in a mushroom cultivation bag for nine months and only one specimen has made it through so far.

I imagine splicing the gene that allows for the production of this enzyme into an ocean bound microorganism would clean up a lot of it while not affecting most of our terristrial infrastructure.

Of course, folks put plastic tubing and what not in the ocean too, so I guess we'll all have to die instead.

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

COMPLETE. GLOBAL. SATURATION.

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