Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in their quest to solve our microplastic problem. They report a new plant-based plastic made from cellulose, the world’s most abundant organic compound. The new plastic is strong, flexible, and capable of rapid decomposition in natural environments, setting it apart from other plastics marketed as biodegradable.
Although this is good to hear, we could also just keep dumping PVA into our environment until an organism develops that can metabolise it and subsequently adapts to eat any kind of plastic ultimately rendering all plastics useless. Bonus points if metabolising the plastics releases toxic byproducts further ultra whopperfuck killing the bleeding piss out of everything that happens to be nearby
Edit: although I am grateful for the earnest replies, I would like to mention that I intended my post to be sarcastic
Although this is good to hear, we could also just keep dumping PVA into our environment until an organism develops that can metabolise it and subsequently adapts to eat any kind of plastic ultimately rendering all plastics useless. Bonus points if metabolising the plastics releases toxic byproducts further ultra whopperfuck killing the bleeding piss out of everything that happens to be nearby
Edit: although I am grateful for the earnest replies, I would like to mention that I intended my post to be sarcastic
We have plenty of organisms that can eat wood, that hasn’t rendered wood useless to us.
We use plastic for alot of things that need to be sterile. Food packaging medical equipment etc
Or someone could make one