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Episode 410 - Ed Byrne

Probably Science

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Is There a Future for Plastic Recycling?

I think that the idea of being able to synthesize enzymes that digest plastic is the most hopeful aspect of this, wouldn't you say? Yeah, it's an end to the forever notion of plastic. And just the fact that everything now has microplastics in it. Like every ocean in the world just has just any cup. You're just a cup of water from the ocean will have a silly number of microscopic bits of plastic in them. Just throwing a cup at somebody's plastic chair. Watch it digest.

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