• AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Also, you can’t realistically release trillions of superworms into the ecosystem to digest all the plastic. The only time where this can be taken advantage of is in a controlled, closed environment. But plastics in those environments aren’t the issue, and you can just as easily break them down chemically or thermally. It’s the plastics out in the natural environment that’s the problem, including the invisible, subcellular scale microplastics, and the actual hard part is finding it all and collecting it to be processed.