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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 2 days ago

How do we prevent it spreading to plastic we don’t want decomposing?

This would be such an interesting development, like something from a sci-fi novel. Can we engineer something to eat oil, gasoline perhaps? That'd be wild.