I sincerely hope we never release these into the wild either accidentally or on purpose. It’s great to have microorganisms that can do work for you but they sho

I sincerely hope we never release these into the wild either accidentally or on purpose. It’s great to have microorganisms that can do work for you but they should be incapable of surviving outside a very controlled environment. We should only tackle a problem like plastic pollution with this by using a contained filter system where we feed the contaminated soil and water in and then take out the cleaned product and thoroughly sterilize it before returning it to the environment. Good God imagine how much worse it would be if the pollutant you had to deal with was alive and capable of self replication and evolving defences to your mitigation efforts!