[rfp1234]

Ping

[RoosterRedux]

"One word."

"What's that? Plastics?"

"No, you young idiot...fungus."

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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.

[TonyinLA]

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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And when it finishes up all the plastic, it’s coming after us ...

[Jamestown1630]

I wonder what else it can eat...

[ByteMercenary]

Some Marines are so tuff they can eat anything ...

[TangoLimaSierra]

So, we declare this fungus as endangered.
Eco-nuts will demand more plastic be thrown into the ocean.

[NetAddicted]

Whoa! Does this mean ecoterrorists will leave artwork alone now?

[exinnj]

Bon appetite, fungus Parengyodontium album!

[ealgeone]

It’s Andromeda.......

[PTBAA]

This sounds like the start of a horror movie.

[Musketeer]

I see a new Godzilla movie in the works!

[Buttons12]

Congratulations, P. album. You’re hired!

[mfish13]

There’s a fungus among us.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

While the “discovery” in this article may be new, there is nothing new about bugs eating petroleum and hydrocarbons.

I remember when the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred. There were ‘scientists’ who tried to questimate the total amount of oil that was released into the Gulf. After they determined an amount, they set off to find the huge underwater oil plumes and surface oil. There was much less than expected. What real scientists found were huuuuge plumes of microorganisms that eat, yes eat, oil. A massive (more than huuuuge) amount of oil naturally seeps into the oceans from the ocean floor. IT’S PART OF THE EARTH. It is food for some parts of the Earth.

A quick search finds much information on our little buddies that dine on petroleum and plastic.

“”Natural and synthetic plastics are degraded by the action of microorganisms including bacteria, actinomycetes, and fungi (Ishigaki et al., 2004; Alshehrei, 2017).””

[Songcraft]

Here's another angle of the little recycle beast.


    

[sasquatch]

Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.

[higgmeister]

Look out for gain of function science.

[Bullish]

So what does it poop then? Nylon?