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In a push to deal with micro plastics, bacteria are developed to be able to break down plastic. Eventually, it gets into the plastic installed for a purpose and starts breaking that down.
I thought I read about this for real a while back? In a bid to make plastic decay faster, make it out of cellulose with embedded bacteria that can break it down. It still happens too slowly for most plastic packaging
bacteria are not animals.
Damn I thought you were gonna say it gets into our bodies and eats us as we're becoming part plastic nowadays.
That's a horror movie premise right there.
I think that's the basic plot to Andromeda.
It took the world a million years before it figured out how to digest cellulose. It used to be like plastic. Just piled up.