The plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

A lot of the waste is single use plastics which don't need to be that durable and are just trash after that single use.

There are lots of different types of plastic as well so this bacteria can likely only break down specific kinds.

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