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Re:It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sk... by Dutchie2020 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:32PM (#20698520)
I guess our only hope to ever clean this up is for evolution or bioengineering to give us some microplastic eating bacteria.
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Re:It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sk... by eddytrex_ on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:45PM (#20698656)
PETase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETase
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Re:It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sk... by aszantu on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:42PM (#20698625)
sadly that will also eat your smart phone xD
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Re:It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sk... by Dutchie2020 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:51PM (#20698705)
Yes, and filling the environment with lots of plastic eating bacteria will also make it useless as a durable packaging material.
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Re:It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sk... by pmahoney on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:53PM (#20698733)
Maybe? Wood is useful even though there are things that will eat it under the right conditions.
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Re:It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sk... by denom on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:04PM (#20698845)
Maybe we should use wood instead of plastic.
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Re:It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sk... by reilly3000 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:58PM (#20699350)
Hemp
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Re:It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sk... by baxtr on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:42PM (#20698626)
Which already exist btw...
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