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[–] luckyguy 0 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago 

Edible mushroom is completely non-toxic

Citation needed. We are still discovering that a lot of the medicine we assumed was safe is toxic. You can't just claim a mushroom with plastic derivitives in it is safe.

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[–] GIF-lLL-S0NG 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

GM fungus, completely safe and harmless

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[–] ratsmack 3 points 0 points (+3|-3) ago 

Says the scientist.... with a gun to his head held by the money grubbing capitalist.

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[–] RedditDead2005-2015 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

There's bacteria that eats plastic too, but they aren't edible like these mushrooms. I love mushrooms, but I'm not going to eat a plastic-eating mushroom. I prefer my mushrooms to feast on plain old manure. ;)

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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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[–] 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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[–] 2716057 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Why would we want our plastics eating our mushrooms? That seems like such a waste of mushrooms!

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

lol, thought the same.

A hyphen would've avoided confusion but it's not a big deal so don't be a bitch about it OP.

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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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