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[โ€“] GTG3000@programming.dev 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's fungi that are eating the pacific trash patch, but the issue is that there's not much energy to be gained from plastics we use. It's slow.

[โ€“] Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

Maybe teach that fungus how to photosynthesize.

Or cell scale fusion.