Scientists 'create' enzyme that eats plastic
Could be a game changer.
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Mon 16 Apr 2018, 20:35,
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It would certainly change the game of tiddlywinks.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 16 Apr 2018, 20:41,
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Apr 2018, 21:02,
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Happy Birthday
Enjoy your plastic munching.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Mon 16 Apr 2018, 21:08,
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You know, I'd forgotten about my chosen name on here...
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Apr 2018, 22:43,
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Yeah
I can see some sort of horror movie in the making.
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Mon 16 Apr 2018, 21:19,
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We could get rid of Crocs once and for all.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Mon 16 Apr 2018, 23:14,
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a microbe that eats the stuff that everything is made out of you say
let's make a billion tons of it
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PET is recyclable anyway
One of the easiest, cook it up in caustic alcohol. Always amazes me that much of the tramp juice can be sold in PET bottles, I suppose the pH is dangerously low, rather than dangerously high.
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A very energy intensive process though.
Enzymes would really bring the cost down.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 17 Apr 2018, 0:14,
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it's only 20% better than the previous one that didn't work very well
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 16 Apr 2018, 22:47,
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What could possibly go wrong?
Fortunately, the guys who created the Cybermen already thought to provide an answer to that question...
https://www.amazon.com/Mutant-59-Plastic-Eaters-Kit-Pedler/dp/0670496626
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yeah there was that book, although i never read it so thats one for the list
But there was another book i read back in the early 80's or late 70's.
That coverd the discovery of a plastic eating bacteria that got loose in the developed world, and forced the population of Britain to seek refuge in various African countrys,where at that time plastics hadnt made there way into every corner of life.
Did a quick search on what i thought the name was. F67 but that isnt the title, just the tricks of an old mind
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fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Tue 17 Apr 2018, 9:43,
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