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Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic
- opendomain 15y agoThis is a great find - perhaps it will save the earth for my children. I only have two concerns: will it eat other plastic that I have not thrown out? Also what about patents on this? I am glad some students found this and no BigPharma
- Reltair 15y agoLooks promising, but what does the fungi convert the polyurethane to and how quickly does it eat it?
- cluda01 15y agoFungi consuming plastic sounds like a parallel process so even if it takes a long time it doesn't really matter as we can just throw a lot of fungi at the problem.
- Serentiynow 15y agoThis is, for me, the biggest reason to save the rain forests. Evolution has resulted in lots of fantastic stuff that we would not have been able to make ourselves.