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7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem
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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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If we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn't be riddled with micro plastics ๐
We know of them and are working on making them more efficient
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Those are Ideonella, and the byproducts are still toxic tu humans. Wouldn't work.