When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?

  • mqvisionary@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Who knows what its consequences are? How about a simpler approach, like reducing plastic use maybe instead of some pie in the sky project?

    • Skua@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      We do probably want both. Even if we end plastic production completely tomorrow, we need to work out a way to clean up all the plastic we’ve already dumped all over the world