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Meet the microbes that could eat your trash - Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet

Meet the microbes that could eat your trash - Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet

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Explore the possibility of plastivores organisms that can eat and break down plastic helping reduce the plastic waste on Earth. Each year humanity produces roughly 400 million tons of plastic, 80% of which is discarded as trash. Of that plastic waste, only one-tenth is recycled. 60% gets incinerated or goes into the landfills, and 30% leaks out into the environment. Fortunately, there are microbes that may be able to take a bite out of this growing problem. Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet explore the future of recycling. Milk5599: When we say 10% of wasted plastics are recycled, it makes it sounds like an average person does not do a good job recycling, but, it may be due to the fact that some plastic products are inherently not recyclable, such as plastic wrap/bags, electronics, and smaller plastics imbedded into textiles such as clothes and furniture. While it's important to push ourselves to recycle and live a sustainable lifestyle, I think it's also important to stop large scale producers to make certain things in the first place that don't need to be made. 400 million tons of plastic produced per year sure sounds awful
Date: 2022-07-07

Comments and reviews: 9


I am not a fan of government limiting the freedom of individuals, just look at the abortion debacle that we have now in the US, but limiting the freedom of corporations is where government is needed. We need to limit the usage of plastic to those only where necessary, and government needs to help fund the transition to manufacturing with other materials. We used to have plenty of good materials for doing the same things. We need to transition back to those
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It's absolutely mind-boggling when you think that these microbes, which are at such a small scale, can make a huge difference in the world--whether it be good or bad. It's hard to wrap my mind around, but certainly a topic worth to contemplate!
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Yes and I cannot wait for them to get out of hand, spread everywhere like blight and ruin our way of life, because nobody has ever meant well with such inventions and changed the world into a hellhole before.
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I have a bad feeling about this. These are unnatural microbes and what if we end up damaging the circle of life. Let's hope all goes well but we shouldn't be blinded by hope.
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No worries, when humans are extinct and Climate Change takes in full effect. The Earth will be hot enough to break down all plastics and life. Cheers.
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What kind of biproduct is produced by microbes eating PET? Do they poop? Do they grow and reproduce? What happens when the plymer is digested?
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5: 18 I love syringes! I ve been collecting them ever since the pandemic. I walk around the city and pick em up off the sidewalk. They re so cool!
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Imagine if the polyethylene could be degraded to ethanol and used for sanitisers using fermentation or assisted by it. Or something of the sort.
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Another problem is that evolution simply isn't true. The only evolution that is working here is these scientist creating the microbe.
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