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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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AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
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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.

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I’ve heard living organisms tend to output carbondioxide

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

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And some toxic compounds.

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