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We have an enzyme that eats the stuff now. Everyone calm down.
.... We've known of various organisms that consume plastic for over a decade. Nothing has come from it.
Why not?
Where?
On Google. PETase if you want the nerdy stuff, or "plastic eating enzyme" if you want news articles.
My point was that, while it exists, it doesn't exist.
It can't be released widespread into the wild to eat microplastics because it would severely damaged infrastructure. So while it's a neat toy in the lab, and might make it's way into waste disposal processes, it doesn't exist where we need it to exist. And it can't. So it's not a solution.
It could be used at recycling centers, and at the largest "customers" of those recycling centers, the landfills...
Do you separate your plastics? The practice is waning. You see it done in less communities these days, specifically because there's nowhere for that plastic to go, and it's gonna end up in a landfill no matter how effectively or avidly you separate it, and people are realizing that and simply not bothering.
If there was a big ass bin somewhere that ate plastic, we could actually do what we've been pretending to do for 40 years and remove it from our waste disposal systems. We could separate plastic, and the plastic could get hauled off to the big plastic eating bin to be depolymerized... Hell, you could just run all the trash through it and landfill whatever got left.
LOL, I got downvoted into oblivion like you for sharing the opposite view. Classic.
How do you suppose that's an opposite, and why are you stalking my posts?
One dismisses the supposed importance of plastics, the other dismisses the importance of needing to remove them.
If I seem stalk-ish, it's only due to how engaged in this place I am. No harm my friend (or at least I don't think so).
No. That's not what this comment is.
I've played Stray, I know where that one ends.