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Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/hardware@lemmy.world

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[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago

no no we said 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 plastics

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 days 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 5 days ago (1 children)

The Bacterial Centipede

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Only one mouth to feed...

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

😅 who thought that was a good idea

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago (1 children)

The risk of them being released to the wild.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ellieficent@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago

almost never

So you’re saying there’s a chance!?

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Now I can actually create the microplastics inside my body!