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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch (futurism.com)
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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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[โ€“] nulluser@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So, a byproduct of this process is, potentially, greenhouse gases? Yay.

[โ€“] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And some toxic compounds.