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Re:Newly discovered bacteria can eat plastic bottles by amatus on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:06AM (#11267372)
The article mentions the bacteria works at "a steady 86 degrees Fahrenheit." It may work slower or not at all at Pacific Ocean temperatures.
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Re:Newly discovered bacteria can eat plastic bottles by _snydly on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:31AM (#11267558)
As a result of this article, I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of groups engineering this bacteria's systems into something that could survive and grow at lower temperatures. Or maybe they'll try to encapsulate the two enzymes in nanoparticles.
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Re:Newly discovered bacteria can eat plastic bottles by onetimePete on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:22PM (#11268473)
may work in a animals stomache?
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Re:Newly discovered bacteria can eat plastic bottles by restalis on Friday March 11, 2016 @02:16PM (#11268807)
Exactly. They found it living in plastic eating bugs and it will do good for say - sea turtles, which mistakenly eat plastic and choke. Just force the turtles to ingest a pill with Ideonella Sakaiensis and if they'll be lucky - they'll get new symbiotic pals!
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