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Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic by soperj on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:22PM (#29628930)
>And, it further presumes that all the accumulated plastic resides within the gut (it doesn't)

Where does it reside?

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Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic by mlyle on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:59PM (#29629438)
Once the pieces get small, they tend to migrate and accumulate throughout an organism. e.g. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/20...

No one really knows what the impact of this is. Maybe it's not too bad. Maybe it is.

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