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To: crusty old prospector

Life will find a way. I’d be surprised if there isn’t various strains of bacteria that have learned how to chow down on this highly available source of food.


25 posted on 08/01/2022 6:19:23 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: glorgau

https://www.nationofchange.org/2020/03/28/scientists-find-bacteria-that-eats-plastic/

The scientists discovered the strain of bacteria, known as pseudomonas bacteria, at a dump site loaded with plastic waste


28 posted on 08/01/2022 6:24:41 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: glorgau

Just like all the bacteria consumed most of the oil from the BP blowout in the Gulf.


37 posted on 08/01/2022 7:22:08 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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