• Cait
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    1 month ago

    I’m still waiting for nature to figure out how to process plastics and bring down most of the world’s infrastructure with it. But I’m not qualified to actually know if this is even possible

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      1 month ago

      It took a long time for nature to figure out how to process wood, but it eventually happened. My wooden furniture is still standing though.

    • GTG3000@programming.dev
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      There’s fungi that are eating the pacific trash patch, but the issue is that there’s not much energy to be gained from plastics we use. It’s slow.

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      29 days ago

      I thought it already had, I swear I rember some scientists finding or creating something, bacteria fungus or something that processes some polymers and they where tryna get ot to out and eat plastic ig so they can put it in landfills everywhere.