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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by hinkley on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:17PM (#25292377)
If we solve the problem by proliferating plastic eating bacteria and fungi, then all of these qualities will be lost.
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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by ev0lv on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:23PM (#25292460)
Couldn't we just augment the existing plastic with seeds/fungi is some way? That way, after some time in the trash, the fungi actually develops a colony which eats the packaging?
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