Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch - eviltoast
  • Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    For earth and the surviving creatures on it this is probably great news, but this is probably going to be a problem for humans in the short term. Plastic is this magic material that is immune to degradation and microbes, now that is no longer the case.

    Ultimately that will be a good thing, but think about sanitized plastic medical equipment, now it can slowly be eaten up by microbes that we didn’t have to worry about before.