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Plastic-Eating Fungi Found in the Amazon May Solve World’s Waste Problem
PSFK.com ^
| March 7, 2012
| Emma Hutchings
Posted on 03/16/2012 10:58:09 AM PDT by Twotone
A group of students and professors from Yale University have found a fungi in the Amazon rainforest that can degrade and utilize the common plastic polyurethane (PUR). As part of the university’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory educational program, designed to engage undergraduate students in discovery-based research, the group searched for plants and cultured the micro-organisms within their tissue.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: amazon; flesheating; plastics; rainforest; skineaters
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To: Twotone
This has unintended consequences written all over it!
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03/16/2012 11:45:07 AM PDT
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556x45
To: Snickering Hound
Uhhh, this might not be sooo good...
Tell me about, sounds like a real life "descolada virus".
The oil/polymer eating bug was a plot in an episode of Sliders, it emphasized the unintended consequences...
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posted on
03/16/2012 11:53:24 AM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: Twotone
Pelosi should be very scared.
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posted on
03/16/2012 11:54:44 AM PDT
by
Wurlitzer
(Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
To: Twotone
Just keep it from the gaskets at Wildfire...
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posted on
03/16/2012 12:04:06 PM PDT
by
LRS
("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
To: Yo-Yo
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03/16/2012 1:09:29 PM PDT
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Salgak
To: Twotone
have found a fungi A fungus.
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posted on
03/16/2012 5:12:00 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
To: Twotone
All the Super-Model Enhancement Surgeons and Super-Models are in a Panic.
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03/13/2016 9:52:55 AM PDT
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SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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