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Mighty marine fungi degrade plastic by eating it, and can be conditioned to do it faster (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

These findings always make me feel optimistic. Imagine if one day each municipality had a huge bin full of plastic eating fungus that all local plastics could just be thrown into. Or imagine if there was some way to give these fungi agency to move around and gorge on litter lol - makes me think of this http://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/04/science/fungus-robot-mushroom-biohybrid