Hadn’t Heard A Peep In The Media About This, Have You?

@Budwick The existence of plastic-eating bacteria has been known long before this. (The meme is sensationalistic but inaccurate.) But all that the bacteria do is to break down the polymers of plastic into monomers, which are still not biodegradable, and are only useful for making more plastic. And there are a lot cheaper ways to make more plastic.

So, while the bacteria might in principle be a way to "recycle" plastic, building a factory that would do all this, and extracting all that plastic from water and shipping it to the factory, with no profit margin for the company that owns the factory or the people who do the extracting and shipping, is probably not going to work financially.

@DrWatson
Hi Doc, you may have a handle on the bacteria works, but you need some work on business economics. A company that has a business model of no profit margin isn't gonna go anywhere.

I see PSA's all the time with a zillion plastic bottle in the lakes and oceans and causing problems. The lay person sees the plastic eating bacteria as maybe this is good kind of thing. You have pointed out that it doesn't really move us forward at all.

So, we gotta collect all that plastic!

@Budwick I agree that a company that foresees no profit margin isn't going anywhere. That was what I was trying to convey.