Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

https://futurism.com/the-byte/plastic-eating-fungus-pacific-garbage-patch

«”Marine fungi can break down complex materials made of carbon,” added Vaksmaa, adding that it’s “likely that in addition to the four species identified so far, other species also contribute to plastic degradation.”»

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/595795/?gift=ly-h2TZGdDJyaoFv6n-KaakSD_GMlq3pkgUzgZCdXek&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share (gift)

«Perhaps, someday, our signal in the rocks will be found, but only if eagle-eyed stratigraphers, from God knows where on the tree of life, crisscross their own rearranged Earth, assiduously trying to find us. But they would be unlikely to be rewarded for their effort. At the end of all their travels—after cataloging all the bedrock of the entire planet—they might finally be led to an odd, razor-thin stratum hiding halfway up some eroding, far-flung desert canyon.»

We will be gone, probably having destroyed ourselves, leaving less trace than we think.

2 thoughts on “Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

  1. Unknown's avatarWinchell Chung ⚛🚀

    @herereadthis.blog

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    1. Unknown's avatarJohn Lusk

      @nyrath @herereadthis.blog

      Yup. Read it when I was in junior high. This isn't that, though. These newly-discovered bugs speed up breakdown by something like 0.05% and don't seem to emit hydrogen gas. 🙂

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