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Nature, eating plastic

 
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https://earthbuddies.net/finding-way-decompose-plastic-waste/

This is awesome. What are some ways to make systems that work with these things? I’m thinking a fungal-bacterial decomposition bin and a waxworm decomposition bin could be parallel systems that complement each other. Community scale? Industrial scale?
 
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All plastic is made from oil, So it usually takes many lifetimes to break down.
 
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Michael Moreken wrote:All plastic is made from oil, So it usually takes many lifetimes to break down.



Yes. That’s why we need to use specifically selected biology to do it faster.
 
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