Re:Microbes in cow stomachs can break down plastic
by morpheos137 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @02:59PM
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Why don't people worry about sand? Nothing eats it. It can mechanically irritate animals (see pearls). How is polyethylene different? The reddit driven hysteria about plastics in general is vastly out of purportion to the actual harm done by plastics.
It could of course be fairly troubling when pieces of our various machines/buildings/etc start to decompose earlier than expected! This assumes quite some luck in terms of mutation to be fair, and maybe humans might also help with speeding that up too? could be good!?