https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/nature-has-learnt-how-to-eat-our-plastic Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 07 Sep 2021 05:58:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/nature-has-learnt-how-to-eat-our-plastic#comment-436439 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 05:58:31 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/nature-has-learnt-how-to-eat-our-plastic#comment-436439 just so you know: A hoax came out of the U.K. several decades ago (and keeps re-appearing), about a bacteria that eats plastic, especially fiberglass. It caused a stir among boaters. Of course, petroleum oil (source of most plastic) has been leaking out of the earth for eons (ie. tar pits). Earths bio-systems have been breaking it down and dealing with it for just as long or every beech in the world would be covered in oil

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