Maybe the only thing more worrisome than microplastics everywhere is unstoppable plastics eating organisms everywhere, eating through all plastics everywhere.
Is there any of this ”bacteria converting plastic to fuel/food/neutral stuff“ actually applied anywhere at scale under economically reasonably conditions?
If you don't eat your biomass compound goo, you can't have any PlastiYum bacterial sludge
Maybe the only thing more worrisome than microplastics everywhere is unstoppable plastics eating organisms everywhere, eating through all plastics everywhere.
There’s a fantastically silly but fun book about this the name of which eludes me.
There was a Doomwatch episode on his subject with airliners falling out of the sky bcause all the plastic had been eaten away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomwatch#Series_One
Is there any of this ”bacteria converting plastic to fuel/food/neutral stuff“ actually applied anywhere at scale under economically reasonably conditions?
And here I thought we were going to be fed insects when we hit final-stage capitalism