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fvgazi
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by fvgazi Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:31 pm
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679201/fung ... ur-plastic
"Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic
Polyurethane seemed like it couldn’t interact with the earth’s normal processes of breaking down and recycling material. That’s just because it hadn’t met the right mushroom yet."
Interesting find. Maybe this can be used on a large scale one day? I'm curious as to what biological waste it creates (oil/fossil fuel?...
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Hazerd
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by Hazerd Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:33 pm
I looked for a picture of this said fungi growing on plastic, but nothing.
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by Hobie-wan Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:45 pm
As long as nobody sneaks one into a box of carts in my closet, that's cool if they can get it to break down plastic trash.
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by MrPopo Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:59 pm
I like the use of the Mario mushroom.
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Luke
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by Luke Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:22 pm
The
solution to our "waste management" issues.
GameMasterGuy
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by GameMasterGuy Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:43 pm
Oh God, time to titanium-coat my SNES carts...
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by BRIK Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:50 am
I got a bad mental image of that eating away at my SNES for some reason
It was a sad sight.
GameMasterGuy
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by GameMasterGuy Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:20 am
Don't want to get too off-topic, but wasn't there some bug thing in Super Metroid that ate away at stuff like this Fungi?
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It was a sad sight.