New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster

[lonely bird]

13. The theory of paranoia applies here

Just because I am paranoid that doesn’t mean they are not out to get me.

I read an interesting novel about a fungus that had a symbiont that did precisely that. The symbiont developed the ability to breakdown plastic and the fungus used this to spread itself. Of course, the novel is fiction but nature has a way of reaching out and sack-punching humanity. Is the enzyme a bad idea? No, not in and of itself. Should care be taken when technology is used to repair technology that once was deemed a good and now is deemed a bad thing? Imo, yes. This does not mean that we should abandon this enzyme but rather that we, as a species, stop shitting in our nests.