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Alphane Moon @lemmy.world

2mo ago

Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics

arstechnica.com

Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics

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no no we said 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 plastics

So we have bacteria to make plastics and bacteria that eats plastics. Put those little guys ass to mouth and collect the heat! Infinite energy!
- The Bacterial Centipede
  
  Only one mouth to feed...

😅 who thought that was a good idea
- What's wrong with this? Seems like a useful idea. I don't think this works outside of a controlled environment.
  
  You're right, it is definitely a useful idea. Like treadful mentioned my first thought was now we will have bacteria creating microplastics in our environment.
  
  The risk of them being released to the wild.
  
  Let's hope it doesn't at least. We don't need more sources of microplastics.

Now I can actually create the microplastics inside my body!

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