On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

Japanese scientists isolate bacteria that can eat plastic:

There are at least a couple of apocalyptic novels out there which use such a bacteria as the reason the world as we know it ends . . . because it gets weaponized and/or mutated to eat not only plastic but also crude oil and it's various distillates such as gasoline . . .

Richard Aiken

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