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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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[–] nulluser@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So, a byproduct of this process is, potentially, greenhouse gases? Yay.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And some toxic compounds.