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Default Plastic-Munching Bugs Turn Waste Bottles Into Cash
Newly discovered bacterial alchemists could help save billions of plastic bottles from landfill. The Pseudomonas strains can convert the low-grade PET plastic used in drinks bottles into a more valuable and biodegradable plastic called PHA.

ABC News: Plastic-Munching Bugs Turn Waste Bottles Into Cash
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This is very nice to hear. Plastic bags too?
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Now we just need to find some metal-eating bugs and we'll have a complete arsenal ready to go for the inevitable robot wars of 2040.
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I for one welcome our new plastic munching overlords
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I read the article and sounds great that now there’s a “pyrolysis” process that save billions of plastic bottles from landfills.
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