Every year and a half, it's sum random organism that can eat plastics

[Troo_]

and then never talked about again until the next year and a half

it's like they mention this in hopes were like:
"oh yeah sum bugs/bacteria is gonna break down all the gigatons of waste in landfills so were good"

But they're always being discovered and never put in practice

How would that even work, anyway?

Surely they would just produce toxic byproducts and be toxic themselves? And imagine predators eat these guys and now our food chains have even more plastic than we already have?

foolish.

 

[theonlytallirish]

instead of putting down niggas with pica just make them eat plastic till they day
same with dogs with pica

 

[Sub->CL]

haha I actually did a school project in biology on PETase

But they're always being discovered and never put in practice

it literally is in use but it's more complicated than just "ok nigga eat that plastic"
it entails using the enzymes instead of the actual bacteria

Surely they would just produce toxic byproducts and be toxic themselves?

no the entire point is that they break down the plastic into organic compounds

 

[DeborahAnnWollFARTS]