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Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Edible Cookies Because That’s the Future We Deserve (futurism.com)

submitted 1 day ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Are we eating enough plastic already?

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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait they haven’t even tasted it? If I was a scientist turning plastic into food I would be at least licking it.

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Probably concerned about worst case scenarios. This is a bioengineered yeast that eats PET. What if it populates your gut and fucks up your gut fauna and hurts you?

What if you shit it out and it gets into some waste area with lots of plastic and starts multiplying uncontrollably?

What if it evolved to eat other plastic and now all our current plastic starts literally molding?

There's a lot of weird shit that you can be concerned about. Might be low risk but low risk of extreme new scenario.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if it evolved to eat other plastic and now all our current plastic starts literally molding?

Side plot point in Niven's Ringworld/Protector series, only with superconductors.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And also in The Andromeda Strain.

[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Those are mental images that I didn't want

[–] soffernyx@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Acceptable damage.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, unintended consequences can be devastating.

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago

Can’t be any worse than fast food!

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's possible they did taste it but can't say it because they didn't get permissions to do it.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Bingo. They 100% ate it, but the university lawyers don’t want to be liable for poisoning a bunch of grad students.

So everyone’s going to pretend the students didn’t eat the plastic cookies.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Get NileBlue on the case!