Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of...
by j-bos on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @06:36PM
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Or those of us who don't like microplatics in our fish, water, and bodies
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Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of...
by stjohnswarts on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @06:39PM
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Those microplastics aren't coming from landfills. They're coming from your everyday interactions with plastic and people dumping plastic in rivers and oceans.
Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of...
by wanderr on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:59PM
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Maybe not the landfills once they are buried. But certainly from waste transfer stations or unburied waste, seagulls and other birds will pick up trash because it smells like food or may have some food in it, and then drop it outside of the landfill/transfer station.
Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of...
by munificent on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:27PM
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If you don't like microplastics, then you should be pro landfill.
A very large fraction of those are from plastic waste in Asian countries that gets dumped into waterways instead of being landfilled.