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Scientists Discover Marine Fungus That Can Eat Plastic
Scitech Daily ^
| June 12, 2024
| By ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH
Posted on 06/12/2024 1:25:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Fungi
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:34:01 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(E Porcibus Unum )
To: Red Badger
"One word."
"What's that? Plastics?"
"No, you young idiot...fungus."
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:35:20 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
To: Red Badger
Plastic is made from oil.
Oil has been leaking into the ocean for millions of years.
Where there is a natural pollutant there is a natural clean up system.
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:35:26 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:36:02 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”
Plastic… a______.”
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:37:43 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:42:36 PM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: rfp1234
Researchers have found that the marine fungus Parengyodontium album can break down polyethylene in the ocean when exposed to UV light, suggesting the presence of more plastic-degrading fungi in deeper waters. Plastic degrades naturally after all? And all our waste-processing equipment would have to do in order to maximize the ocean's plastic-eating efficiency is to make sure garbage is exposed to daylight on the way through?
This is terrible news. How will we be able to justify dismantling Western technology and civilization and killing more babies through abortion to reduce the number of "useless eaters" on the earth? We'll have to think of another excuse!
To: Red Badger
China and India are responsible for 90% of all plastics in the oceans.
They caused it and are not slowing down. Never brought up because those countries are immune BY TREATY from pollution and ‘climate change’ demands. And they’re not white countries.
But don’t you use a plastic straw! The plastic around your plastic container of prepared food, and the bag it comes in, are cool though.
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:45:00 PM PDT
by
TonyinLA
(I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
To: Red Badger
And when it finishes up all the plastic, it’s coming after us ...
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:45:27 PM PDT
by
x
To: Red Badger
I wonder what else it can eat...
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:45:35 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Jamestown1630
I wonder what else it can eat...
Cars, bars, and Guitars....Get up!
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:47:29 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
Some Marines are so tuff they can eat anything ...
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:48:06 PM PDT
by
ByteMercenary
(Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
To: Red Badger
So, we declare this fungus as endangered.
Eco-nuts will demand more plastic be thrown into the ocean.
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posted on
06/12/2024 1:59:03 PM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: Red Badger
Whoa! Does this mean ecoterrorists will leave artwork alone now?
To: Jamestown1630
I wonder what else it can eat... Many years ago I read a book series where they developed an organism that ate oil to clean up the oceans. It did not end well.
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posted on
06/12/2024 2:02:38 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
To: rfp1234
Thank you. This is not the first fungus that can degrade plastic, a number of terrestrial fungi have been shown to do so. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9330918/
A number of mushrooms can also eat plastic, one being the osyter mushroom, Pleurotus osteatus. You might ask how they do this? Easy, fungi are enzyme producing wizards. They make enzymes that recycle almost everything and are the curators of the dark places. If not for fungi, the earth would be one big garbage pile.
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posted on
06/12/2024 2:05:13 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Red Badger
Bon appetite, fungus Parengyodontium album!
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posted on
06/12/2024 2:19:05 PM PDT
by
exinnj
To: Red Badger
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posted on
06/12/2024 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Red Badger
This sounds like the start of a horror movie.
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posted on
06/12/2024 2:43:33 PM PDT
by
PTBAA
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