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minus-squareFat Tony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoCan’t we just inject ourselves with plastic eating bacteria or something?
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoIf we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn’t be riddled with micro plastics 😉
minus-squareBenchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoWe know of them and are working on making them more efficient Source
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThose are Ideonella, and the byproducts are still toxic tu humans. Wouldn’t work.
minus-squareSassyRamen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoWe just need to turn up the UV lights voltage and melt the plastic out. Is that something we could look into?
Can’t we just inject ourselves with plastic eating bacteria or something?
If we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn’t be riddled with micro plastics 😉
We know of them and are working on making them more efficient
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Those are Ideonella, and the byproducts are still toxic tu humans. Wouldn’t work.
We just need to turn up the UV lights voltage and melt the plastic out. Is that something we could look into?
We are the plastic eating bacteria.