Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16488358
Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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I can't tell if it's a good news or bad news.
Fungus are great news, the best nonplant plant in the ecosystem
Ahem, Mammals would like a word with you. MAMMALS RULE, FUNGUS DROOLS!
It's mamals who generally drool though
Slime mold would like to have a drooly word.
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Yeah, the plastic eatings sometgings never process the toxic bits.
Assuming it doesn't evolve the ability to digest human flesh after it eats all the plastic, I think this is great news.
An interesting scifi plot could be where said fungi start hungering for the microplastics within us...
First they came for our patch then they came for our balls
Assuming you don't have the immune system of a plastic bottle you will be fine.
Yeah, the plastic eatings sometgings never process the toxic bits.
All in all good news. It means less plastic and more biomass.
And more CO2
Yup, if we can sequester the extra CO2 in the biomass part of the carbon cycle I think that's the best solution, it doesn't fight life on the planet, instead it works with it.