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User ID: 65330616 Canada 01/07/2015 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Plastic-Eating Mushrooms Could Save the World! Here’s a quick exercise in despair. No one knows quite how long it takes plastic to break down in the environment. It could be anywhere from hundreds to thousands of years; at any rate, it’s proven to be longer than the roughly 150 years that manmade plastics have existed. Count the things made out of plastic that you can see even just sitting at your desk -- water bottles, pen caps, iPhone cases, coffee lids, shopping bags, tape dispensers, everything else -- multiply that by a trillion or so, and you have an idea of the scope of the plastic waste on earth. Now, just for fun, try to imagine the roughly 870 million people around the globe who are starving right at this moment. It’s enough to make you want to disown this garbage world we created. But the good news is that for every problem, there are thousands of smart people trying to solve it. And Austrian designer Katharina Unger has figured out how to harness the power of a rare fungus that can turn plastic into edible biomass. Con't @ [ link to modernfarmer.com] Follow me on Twitter: @RussellScott202 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 50637366 United States 01/11/2015 11:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Plastic-Eating Mushrooms Could Save the World! this sounds like a great candidate for a case of unintended consequences |
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Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Plastic-Eating Mushrooms Could Save the World! The power of shrooms... :peace: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 64587074 United States 01/11/2015 11:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Plastic-Eating Mushrooms Could Save the World! Very cool. I hope it can do what its potential indicates. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 140124 Canada 01/11/2015 11:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Plastic-Eating Mushrooms Could Save the World! this sounds like a great candidate for a case of unintended consequences
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 50637366 Don't think I'd be eating them, at the very least. |