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Excellent Reads@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 2 years ago

‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world

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‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world

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Excellent Reads@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 2 years ago

The long read: When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?

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Easily. But then they would be outcompeted by bacteria that can.
- Rob Bos
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  Unless they have a sole niche they alone can occupy, like prevalent plastic, maybe.

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