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Isn't this old news? * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientists-accidentally-create-mutant-enzyme-that-eats-plastic-bottles https://www.t

by 22c 8y ago

Isn't this old news? * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientists-accidentally-create-mutant-enzyme-that-eats-plastic-bottles https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientis... * https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-092915.html https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-0...

dvh 8y ago
Another evergreens: - battery breakthrough - solar cells efficiency breakthrough - water electrolysis breakthrough
- VMG 8y ago
  - new antibacterial breakthrough - superconductor breakthrough - graphene manufacturing breakthrough
  - dzhiurgis 8y ago
    - quantum computing breakthrough - cancer treatment breakthrough
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- ryanchoi 8y ago
  Don't forget the occasional breakthroughs that give us hope in nuclear fusion power :)
no_identd 8y ago
Even more: Daniel Burd (Canada) - Bacteria that break down polyethylene - https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2008/07/01/waterloo_student_develops_plastic_bag_composter.html https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2008/07/01/waterloo_student... Miranda Wang & Jeanny Yao (Canada) - Bacteria that eat phthalates - https://www.sciencealert.com/students-are-developing-a-bacteria-to-eat-the-plastic-pollution-in-the-oceans https://www.sciencealert.com/students-are-developing-a-bacte... Tseng I-Ching (Taiwan) - Bacteria that degrade Styrofoam - https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/high-school-girl-discovers-styrofoam-eating-bacterium https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/hi... Morgan Vague (Oregon, US) - polyethylene terephthalate [See OP] And there exists even more research on this, out of Japan. Can we please just take all those bacteria and together throw them into a bioreactor along with some well mixed, diverse plastic trash, for that sweet, sweet horizontal gene transfer? Bonus if we can also get some fungi and/or lichen and/or bryophytes in there/out of that.

by 22c 8y ago

dvh 8y ago

Another evergreens: - battery breakthrough - solar cells efficiency breakthrough - water electrolysis breakthrough

VMG 8y ago
- new antibacterial breakthrough - superconductor breakthrough - graphene manufacturing breakthrough
- dzhiurgis 8y ago
  - quantum computing breakthrough - cancer treatment breakthrough
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
ryanchoi 8y ago
Don't forget the occasional breakthroughs that give us hope in nuclear fusion power :)

no_identd 8y ago

Even more: Daniel Burd (Canada) - Bacteria that break down polyethylene - https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2008/07/01/waterloo_student_develops_plastic_bag_composter.html https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2008/07/01/waterloo_student... Miranda Wang & Jeanny Yao (Canada) - Bacteria that eat phthalates - https://www.sciencealert.com/students-are-developing-a-bacteria-to-eat-the-plastic-pollution-in-the-oceans https://www.sciencealert.com/students-are-developing-a-bacte... Tseng I-Ching (Taiwan) - Bacteria that degrade Styrofoam - https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/high-school-girl-discovers-styrofoam-eating-bacterium https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/hi... Morgan Vague (Oregon, US) - polyethylene terephthalate [See OP] And there exists even more research on this, out of Japan. Can we please just take all those bacteria and together throw them into a bioreactor along with some well mixed, diverse plastic trash, for that sweet, sweet horizontal gene transfer? Bonus if we can also get some fungi and/or lichen and/or bryophytes in there/out of that.