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Fungi found on coconut husks can decompose plastic, sunscreen (www.hawaii.edu)
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[-] avuko@infosec.exchange 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

@wolfyvegan

Of course it would be fungi. ;)

Edit: Discovered by someone from 12th grade.

Mind blown!

[-] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

shit is sunscreen bad for the environment?

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Chemical sunscreens can be. Mineral types that use zinc oxide or titanium oxide should be pretty okay to use.

[-] failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to 2 points 2 days ago

@wolfyvegan

I spent some time looking into this
As far as I can tell, the coconut husk thing is BS, cause it is well known and has been for some time that fungi can at least partially degrade some plastics

I was to lazy to see if the method used, an agar plate plaque assay, actually measues plastic degredation

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