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Re:Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from p... by splittingTimes on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:06AM (#19357391)
More plastic? Should we not try to figure out how to engineer microbes to ingest micro plastic and return something biodegradable?
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Re:Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from p... by King-Aaron on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:03AM (#19357578)
I mean, it kind of said that in the article?

> It would be an attractive plastic alternative—one that would break down naturally in the environment, and wouldn't leach hormone-mimicking compounds into water

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Re:Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from p... by wumms on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:05AM (#19357589)
At least for PET some bacteria exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETase
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