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There are plenty of nutrients in soil, though. Buried utilities would be most susceptible. EDIT: Also seawater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_degradati
by HPsquared 3y ago
There are plenty of nutrients in soil, though. Buried utilities would be most susceptible.
EDIT: Also seawater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_degradation_by_marine_bacteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_degradation_by_marine_...
- civilitty 3y agoPlastic eating microbes have been identified pretty much everywhere including soil and fresh and salt water. However, most everything has access to the nutrients in those environments and the plastic eating microbes just aren’t competitive with autotrophs and their predators.