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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch (futurism.com)
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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would really like to know what's the resulting materials after the breaking down, but the article doesn't say :(

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well, given what we know about most commercial plastics, which are all derived from oil/complex hydrocarbons, the consumed plastic could be broken down into condensed carbon? Or would it be carbon gases? I'm speculating based on just what I know about plastics, what they are and how they're made.

[–] onion@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

I've heard living organisms tend to output carbondioxide

[–] nulluser@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So, a byproduct of this process is, potentially, greenhouse gases? Yay.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And some toxic compounds.