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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn't be riddled with micro plastics ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We know of them and are working on making them more efficient

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Those are Ideonella, and the byproducts are still toxic tu humans. Wouldn't work.