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Can't we just inject ourselves with plastic eating bacteria or something?
If we knew of bacteria that cleanly ate plastic, we probably wouldn't be riddled with micro plastics ๐
We know of them and are working on making them more efficient
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Those are Ideonella, and the byproducts are still toxic tu humans. Wouldn't work.