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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.
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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

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