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[-] FatTony@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Can't we just inject ourselves with plastic eating bacteria or something?

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We just need to turn up the UV lights voltage and melt the plastic out. Is that something we could look into?

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

We are the plastic eating bacteria.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

If we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn't be riddled with micro plastics 😉

[-] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

We know of them and are working on making them more efficient

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Those are Ideonella, and the byproducts are still toxic tu humans. Wouldn't work.

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