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minus-squareFat Tony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 hours agoCan’t we just inject ourselves with plastic eating bacteria or something?
minus-squareSassyRamen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-210 hours agoWe just need to turn up the UV lights voltage and melt the plastic out. Is that something we could look into?
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 hours agoIf we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn’t be riddled with micro plastics 😉
minus-squareBenchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 hour agoWe know of them and are working on making them more efficient Source
Can’t we just inject ourselves with plastic eating bacteria or something?
We just need to turn up the UV lights voltage and melt the plastic out. Is that something we could look into?
We are the plastic eating bacteria.
If we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn’t be riddled with micro plastics 😉
We know of them and are working on making them more efficient
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