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Re:Plastic-eating caterpillars: An escape from a shopping ba... by thatcat on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:27PM (#15659851)
"If a single enzyme is responsible for this chemical process, its reproduction on a large scale using biotechnological methods should be achievable." It seems like the intent is to find the mechanism of action and transfer it to a microbe. Could be super useful in oceans and other places that micro plastics are common.
Re:Plastic-eating caterpillars: An escape from a shopping ba... by dx034 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:52AM (#15660655)
I'd still keep them in a filter rather than releasing those microbes to the ocean. We don't know what other effects this could have on life.
Re:Plastic-eating caterpillars: An escape from a shopping ba... by lostlogin on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:06AM (#15660701)
As far as I’m aware, rubbish dumps are lined with a membrane to help control leaching. Having this membrane attacked would be fairly unhelpful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_liner