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minus-squareFat Tony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·8 个月前Can’t we just inject ourselves with plastic eating bacteria or something?
minus-squareSassyRamen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·edit-28 个月前We just need to turn up the UV lights voltage and melt the plastic out. Is that something we could look into?
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·8 个月前We are the plastic eating bacteria.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·8 个月前If we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn’t be riddled with micro plastics 😉
minus-squareBenchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·8 个月前We know of them and are working on making them more efficient Source
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 个月前Those are Ideonella, and the byproducts are still toxic tu humans. Wouldn’t work.
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 😉
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.