Plastic eating fungi!

[Steve Bullman]

Interesting...

 

From within the Amazon rain forest, a group of researchers from Yale University’s Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry have discovered a species of fungus that is able to naturally break down and consume polyurethane. As the plastic addiction of our convenience driven society weighs in at roughly 251 million tons of discarded plastics a year, this discovery poses ground breaking opportunities

 

[Tome] | Research Team Finds Plastic-Eating Mushroom Species In... - TIMEWHEEL

[David Humphries]

Good one, that's pretty cool in my book

 

You been reading those magazines at the dentist surgery again

 

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[Steve Bullman]

Might have known you'd be the first to respond

[David Humphries]

Thought it was a PM

 

 

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

All they need to do is sell the spores in sachets and we can have fungi-farms at each and every home.

[se7enthdevil]

that's great but i can already see a world falling apart in the future because all the plastic is being eaten away faster than we can replace it. lets hope we actually stop using it as much as we do at present...

[devon TWiG]

If not carefully managed this could be incredibly disastrous ... boats dissolving at sea , water pipes disintegrating , windows falling out ( plastic frames ) and many many more things which we depend upon .... but also of course it could be very good ( and could make some a great deal of money !!) What have the fungi been eating until now ???

[Ty Korrigan]

Not a surprise really.

There are already bacteria in existance which digest crude oil.

The plastic eating fungi must already be at work on my Quadchip as well as a bearing eating fungus and one which blunts my saws... although that could be just a useless groundy.

Ty

[Starscream]

Interesting.. I wonder how they'll implement it? From the results, it looks like it may take months to dissolve a plastic bottle though! I'm glad it's been discovered and hopefully it gets put to good use, but as Devon twig said, it will need controlling!

[peatff]

There will be door to door salesmen selling wooden windows and conservatories next thing you know and carrier bags will be made of fungus proof brown paper. Where will it all end ?