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Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
- BMc2020 5y agohttps://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/kit-gerry-davis-pedler/mutant-59-the-plastic-eaters/ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/kit-gerry-davis... a doomsday script triggered by a self-destruct plastic container which is eco-and-economically beneficial until. . . a robot goes amok in a toy department, a lunar capsule falls into space, a computer-control experiment is fouled up, and all hell breaks loose in the underground tubes. Omniverous Mutant 59 (a bacteria) feeds on plastic and just think of those vulnerable possibilities -- eyeglasses, dentures, baggies, etc. -- while London detonates and incinerates in the volatile process.
- elasticventures 5y agoi came to write this. imagining a future where all plastic was consumed by airbore bacteria and watching the world around us that relies so much on plastics so deeply systematically melt.