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Wired story from May 2008: Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/teen-decomposes/ http://www.wired.com/wiredsci

• asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
  And that's also not entirely right as these microbes were known before the the kid "discovered" them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria But Teen discovers world saving tech is too good a story to let reality get in the way.