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Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/hardware@lemmy.world

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[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

no no we said 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 plastics

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So we have bacteria to make plastics and bacteria that eats plastics. Put those little guys ass to mouth and collect the heat! Infinite energy!

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Bacterial Centipede

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Only one mouth to feed...

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

😅 who thought that was a good idea

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

What's wrong with this? Seems like a useful idea. I don't think this works outside of a controlled environment.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

You're right, it is definitely a useful idea. Like treadful mentioned my first thought was now we will have bacteria creating microplastics in our environment.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The risk of them being released to the wild.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lab bacteria like this almost never can exist outside of very specific environmental parameters.

[–] ellieficent@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

almost never

So you’re saying there’s a chance!?

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Let's hope it doesn't at least. We don't need more sources of microplastics.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Now I can actually create the microplastics inside my body!