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7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem
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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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Can't we just inject ourselves with plastic eating bacteria or something?
We just need to turn up the UV lights voltage and melt the plastic out. Is that something we could look into?
We are the plastic eating bacteria.
If we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn't be riddled with micro plastics ๐
We know of them and are working on making them more efficient
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Those are Ideonella, and the byproducts are still toxic tu humans. Wouldn't work.