• MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I am curious at how many of these pointless reports are going to be made. I have seen countless reports like this and at the end of the day we are drowning in plastic.

    • MemmingenFan923@feddit.org
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      4 days ago

      Every year there is a new article about a scientist finding a new bacteria, funghi worm or other kind of species that can digest plastic. However they work only in perfect lab condition and on smaller scale. Sadly there is no real world usage yet.

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        3 days ago

        You’re not wrong, but that’s what science and research ARE. If you want engineering and commercialization, go subscribe to those communities, not “science.”

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Meal worms do indeed eat stryofoam, but not sure they would do it in the wild given other food sources.

      • Naz@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        I think the grand irony about this thing is that if there really was a bacteria that could eat away it plastic there would be a mass panic – "new dangerous bacteria found eating away at plastic containers, all packaging rotting on store shelves!"

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          3 days ago

          Bacteria can eat wood and paper. That doesn’t mean they disintegrate on the shelf. Environmental conditions would still have to be right for that to happen.

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            3 days ago

            If it just eats plastic and nothing else. This is actually a good thing. Eat all the microplastics you can little bacteria

              • shalafi@lemmy.world
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                3 days ago

                Yep. Ain’t the bacteria that gets you, it’s their shit. Same reason you can sterilize rotten food and still get sick.

    • arakhis_@feddit.org
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      4 days ago

      the solutions already exist, the customer & industry just doesnt want to adapt

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        4 days ago

        What choice does the customer really have? Plastic is a component of nearly everything that isn’t food and packaging for nearly everything.

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          3 days ago

          example would be paper based alternatives like lets say dishwasher tabs… society wont spend the money. and therefore these even more expensive packaging alternatives arent even in question of choice

          at least thats what makes sense to me so far