Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch (futurism.com)

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[-] towerful@programming.dev 40 points 5 months ago

Can't wait for the pandemic of plastic eating fungus infecting the human race and living on the micro plastic in our testicles.
Or, like, all medical tools becoming impossible to package and ship cause of this fungus.

[-] JayTreeman@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago

Or just spreading outside of the garbage patch and getting into a city. Suddenly everywhere there's plastic coated electric wiring becomes a fire hazard.