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These newly discovered bacteria can eat plastic bottles
Orlando Sentinal ^
| March 10, 2016
| Deborah Netburn
Posted on 03/13/2016 5:31:02 AM PDT by huldah1776
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Feed the beast!
To: huldah1776
Wonderful! Now , please, someone find the cure for cancer.
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:35:44 AM PDT
by
FES0844
To: huldah1776
Law of Unintended Consequences? Imagine going out to your car in the morning and finding that all the plastic has been eaten.
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:38:25 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: huldah1776
Good development. I love shutting up envior-whackos.
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:39:29 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
To: huldah1776
I’m waiting for the discovery of bacteria that eats leftists, terrorists and the liberal fellow travelers, it’s a win-win:
Clean up America like never before, and the bacteria will have PLENTY to eat!
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:39:49 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Trump is kicking the ass of the GOPe, RINOs & the media. Don't like him? He must be kicking YOUR ass)
To: mkjessup
..These newly discovered bacteria can eat plastic bottles...
And what will be the unintended consequences?
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:45:24 AM PDT
by
Sasparilla
(Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
To: Sasparilla
We all go back to using genuine GLASS bottles?
Coca Cola *always* tasted better in a glass bottle. :)
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:47:47 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Trump is kicking the ass of the GOPe, RINOs & the media. Don't like him? He must be kicking YOUR ass)
To: huldah1776
Sounds great until the stuff is hit with gamma rays and turns on Tokyo. It will take both Godzilla AND Mothra to take it out.
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:47:56 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: huldah1776
I knew it! Seriously, I predicted this years back!
And pretty soon at a stop light near you somebodies bumper is going to fall of before your very eyes!
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:50:08 AM PDT
by
djf
("It's not about being nice, it's about being competent!" - Donald Trump)
To: Dr. Sivana
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:50:27 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: Sasparilla
Eat right through a cars bumper.
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:52:20 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: mkjessup
We all go back to using genuine GLASS bottles?Sure, why not...if you don't mind paying a whole lot more for your soda...
The cost of picking up, sorting, handling, cleaning, storing, pest control issues all cost money...
Or you can buy a PET bottle and a cap for pennies depending on the size of the container and just sell it and never handle it it again...
I might add the life cycle of a glass bottle in the soft drink industry was about 25 times...then you deal with the cost of handling the ones that no longer pass quality control specs...
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posted on
03/13/2016 5:55:42 AM PDT
by
Popman
To: mkjessup
We all go back to using genuine GLASS bottles?Forget to add the capital cost of retooling manufacturing plants to run glass bottles again...
One of the great things about the soft drink industry is it cannot be offshored...
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posted on
03/13/2016 6:01:01 AM PDT
by
Popman
To: Popman
Sounds good to me, I remember the Rock Creek bottling plant just outside of Washington D.C. when I was a kid, it was running almost 24 hours a day, had huge glass windows so you could walk by and watch the bottles being filled with Coca Cola and other Rock Creek products, I say bring those jobs back! :)
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posted on
03/13/2016 6:02:47 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Trump is kicking the ass of the GOPe, RINOs & the media. Don't like him? He must be kicking YOUR ass)
To: Sooth2222
LOL mine is a 94 jeep and I would be missing the back hatch.
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posted on
03/13/2016 6:05:12 AM PDT
by
huldah1776
( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
To: b4its2late
Reverting back to my microbiological days almsot 40 years ago, PET, PE, PP, or any other polymer is an very very unlikely ever to be a singular food source for any bacteriological species.
Can about guarantee that there will there will also be an augmented food source to get these bugs to work the complex chained polymer molecules.
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posted on
03/13/2016 6:07:06 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
To: huldah1776
Didn’t they make a movie along similar lines: Andromeda Strain?
To: mkjessup
That happens when the Messiah returns.
12 Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.
Zechariah 14
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posted on
03/13/2016 6:10:44 AM PDT
by
huldah1776
( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
To: mkjessup
I say bring those jobs back! :)Huh....Those jobs didn't go anywhere...
There has been some jobs lost to automation, technology and consolation ...
None went overseas.
Having been in the business, expect to pay about 50 % more for your soda...
Now, we are talking about losing real jobs do to lost business and sales...
Definitely worth the genuine glass bottle taste...
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posted on
03/13/2016 6:11:13 AM PDT
by
Popman
To: huldah1776
Would these microbes be kin to oil-eating microbes?
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posted on
03/13/2016 6:28:38 AM PDT
by
waterhill
(I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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