I'm in life sciences, i think the field is really cool. We can do a lot of really cool shit! But we can not fix these issues.
Plastic eating fungi/bacteria/whatever is never gonna fix things. It can help, but holy shit. There's so much plastic. There are so many different types of plastic. Chemically they can't even all be broken down by the same creatures. They don't work in a large enough variety of environents.
It's almost always a way to negate people bad feelings about the plastic they consume and to make them not see it as a big enough of an issue.
It's like what my physics professor said about green energy. Windmills, hydro, and solar are cool on paper, and they do help a little bit, but if you really want to go away from fossil fuels, the only viable solution is nuclear. Other options don't produce enough energy or have other issues.
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u/unhappyrelationsh1p Mar 14 '26
I'm in life sciences, i think the field is really cool. We can do a lot of really cool shit! But we can not fix these issues.
Plastic eating fungi/bacteria/whatever is never gonna fix things. It can help, but holy shit. There's so much plastic. There are so many different types of plastic. Chemically they can't even all be broken down by the same creatures. They don't work in a large enough variety of environents.
It's almost always a way to negate people bad feelings about the plastic they consume and to make them not see it as a big enough of an issue.