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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€“] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An interesting scifi plot could be where said fungi start hungering for the microplastics within us...

[โ€“] classic@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago

First they came for our patch then they came for our balls