Plastic-eating bacteria?
https://youtu.be/rtZs-MPFcHo
@freemo Did you watch the video? They are engineering this enzyme without the use of bacteria. They needed to boost its degradation factor tremendously over the bacteria to make it useful.
The bacteria were discovered accidentally by Japanese scientists, so it is already out in the wild.
@lordalveric No I havent, ill watch it
@lordalveric We dont have the option though. Bacteria isnt something we can pick and choose where it goes. You start applying plastic eating bacteria on waste at a large scale, then it gets intot he environment, you dont get the choice anymore.
We would have no more of an "option" than we would when our meat rots.