Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
  • krashmo@lemmy.world
    17·
    7 months ago

    Assuming it doesn’t evolve the ability to digest human flesh after it eats all the plastic, I think this is great news.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      28·
      7 months ago

      An interesting scifi plot could be where said fungi start hungering for the microplastics within us…

    • anton
      2·
      7 months ago

      Assuming you don’t have the immune system of a plastic bottle you will be fine.