Wissenschaftler haben einen „selbstverdaulichen Kunststoff“ entwickelt, der ihrer Meinung nach dazu beitragen könnte, die Umweltverschmutzung zu reduzieren

>Polyurethane is used in everything from phone cases to trainers, but is tricky to recycle and mainly ends up in landfill.

>However, researchers have come up with a sci-fi like solution.

>By incorporating spores of plastic-eating bacteria they’ve developed a plastic that can self-destruct.

>The spores remain dormant during the useful lifetime of the plastic, but spring back to life and start to digest the product when exposed to nutrients in compost.

Obviously, this is a very risky idea, which is why it will need to see much, much more testing if it were ever to be green lit. What are your thoughts about using this? Perhaps a limited rollout in a controlled setting? Like labs using this to help eliminate their plastic waste?

The issue is if this bacteria decides it wants to activate on its own and starts eating plastic everywhere, which would be catastrophic for our modern world as well as dramatically increasing our emissions.