Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds

Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds by aliswe on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:54PM (#31496805)

> The first bug that eats plastic was discovered in a Japanese waste dump in 2016.

That wasn't a bug! It was the bacteria Ideonella sakaiensis, if my Google-fu serves me right.

Maybe the whole article (meaning the title as well) is off?

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Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds by masklinn on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @04:04PM (#31496922)

The entire article talks about microbes. In the article's context, it's quite clear that bug is used in the colloquial meaning for that, as in "a stomach bug", not in the sense of insects or arthropods.

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Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds by wubbert on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @04:13PM (#31497038)

They're phrasing it that way for sensationalism.

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Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds by Sprocklem on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:03PM (#31498569)

To me, this sense of the word "bug" can only refer to diseases.

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