News, Plastic-Munching Bugs Turn Waste Bottles Into Cash. (biodegradable, harmful, convert)

[JD59]

Newly discovered bacterial alchemists could help save billions of plastic bottles from landfill. The Pseudomonas strains can convert the low-grade PET plastic used in drinks bottles into a more valuable and biodegradable plastic called PHA.

ABC News: Plastic-Munching Bugs Turn Waste Bottles Into Cash

[SubaruFiend]

I have a feeling later on down the line they'll find out that these "earth saving bugs" can somehow mutate into something else once they've eaten enough plastic. Suddenly they become these huge, mutant, plastic filled bugs that are more harmful then the plastic they ate and then end up causing more harm then the bottles ever could have :PPPPPP

[harry chickpea]

Originally Posted by SubaruFiend

I have a feeling later on down the line they'll find out that these "earth saving bugs" can somehow mutate into something else once they've eaten enough plastic. Suddenly they become these huge, mutant, plastic filled bugs that are more harmful then the plastic they ate and then end up causing more harm then the bottles ever could have :PPPPPP

They already have. The adult ones look like credit cards.

Old news, actually.

[TomSD]

Interesting read. Be nice to see something come of it.