this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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[–] towerful@programming.dev 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can't wait for the pandemic of plastic eating fungus infecting the human race and living on the micro plastic in our testicles.
Or, like, all medical tools becoming impossible to package and ship cause of this fungus.

[–] JayTreeman@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

Or just spreading outside of the garbage patch and getting into a city. Suddenly everywhere there's plastic coated electric wiring becomes a fire hazard.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

P. album is capable of mineralizating UV-treated polyethylene (PE) into CO2.

Well, FUCK!

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First I was like "that sounds really good actually" but turning it into CO2 probably isnt good news

Might it be better than sticking around is plastic for thousands of years? I don't know.

[–] PixelTron@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

“Life finds a way” 😎