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[–] xlx ago 

These hipster science videos are always so useless and insubstantial.

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[–] Dumb_Comment_Bot ago 

I feel like the end goal is making carbon dioxide, I mean unless you eat them. Which you might as well burn it at point. Especially if you are going through the effort of depolymerizing it with UV.

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[–] PushYourself ago 

Why would I eat a fungus full of plastic?

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[–] SpitfireXVI ago 

Its real, but how Realistic is widespead use? will this be licensed ultra cheep or what.

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[–] Hypothetical_Boner ago 

You'd need farms full of these things.

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[–] umilmi81 ago 

So just to summarize. Technology saves the day again and regressive environmentalism is wrong again.

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[–] CeepsNo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Needs to be in an anaerobic environment which means we can't just go around spraying stuff with this. :(

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[–] 5021449? ago 

Yep, difficult to pipe UV down into a landfill. Plus, if you could make something that could eat a landfill, what's to stop it from infecting and destroying plastics society depends on. Like artificial joints or perhaps heart valves.

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[–] mirimar 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The cost of using UV light alone makes the whole project economically unviable. Recycling would be far cheaper.

edit: grammer

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[–] RedditDead2005-2015 ago 

Yeah, that raised an eyebrow too. Creating one waste to get rid of another. Even if they used solar panels to power the lights, the solar panels still took oil and plastic to make.

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[–] Al_Rubyx ago 

We know how to get rid of plastic, just not billions of tons a year

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