Can this plastic eating fungus help tackle humanity’s waste crisis? | DW News
Plastic-eating fungus! A German research team is investigating fungi that can break down synthetic polymers—what we commonly call plastic.
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8 comments
Good
Amazing. Hopefully it'll work on a large scale!
And😀😀😀😀OOPS
The Fungus mutates killing all Humans on Earth.
anything humans devise, creates 5 additional problems….
Without Paul Stammets they'd never have fugured out how to engineer this. 🍄
Ok, but can it also eat the plastic in our balls?
Plot for movie: fungi escapes laboratory and starts to eat everything plastic fast. After decade society collapses, as every mechanism has plastic in it and people are not adapted to live without plastic.
It is still a step forward. 🙂