BeboSep 30, 2023

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

https://literature.cafe/post/2003549

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

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?

Show threadmqvisionarySep 30, 2023
Who knows what its consequences are? How about a simpler approach, like reducing plastic use maybe instead of some pie in the sky project?
Show threadTruck_kunOct 1, 2023

I despise how many stores have stopped offering paper bags. I don’t want an extra thick disposable plastic bag you claim is reusable for regulatory purposes, and won’t actually be reused by most people, because they end up with so many that they are a drop in replacement for the older thinner plastic bags.

Just give me paper bags back. They are easily recyclable, or compostable if you put your compostables in it.

Show threadptman
Paper bags are worse, except maybe for microplastics. But they take more resources to create, and aren’t as recyclable as good plastic bags. You can use a canvas bag, but that takes even more resources to create. So you have to use the same canvas bag for years
Oct 2, 2023 at 1:30pmWeb