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minus-squareFat Tony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·8 months agoCan’t we just inject ourselves with plastic eating bacteria or something?
minus-squareSassyRamen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoWe 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 months agoWe are the plastic eating bacteria.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoIf 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 months agoWe know of them and are working on making them more efficient Source
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoThose 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
Source
Those are Ideonella, and the byproducts are still toxic tu humans. Wouldn’t work.