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 The Mushroom That Eats Plastic "The fungi, Pestalotiopsis microspora, is the first anyone has found to survive on a steady diet of polyurethane alone..." http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679201/fungi-discovered-in-the-amazon-will-eat-your-plasticmind your batsy dx, yo.
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Rich
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic I'm friends with the guy who navigates the Yale doctors though South America ( he is the most fascinating person I know). He has told me about just a few of Yales research studies with either bugs or plants and it would blow your mind !
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Mike Like Bike
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic Get that shroom away from my vinyl. 
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic That's wonderful news! Thanks for sharing! 
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic Rich wrote: I'm friends with the guy who navigates the Yale doctors though South America ( he is the most fascinating person I know). He has told me about just a few of Yales research studies with either bugs or plants and it would blow your mind ! that's awesome. i wish him the best in his work, before they burn the whole thing down to grow hamburgers or whatever... it continually amazes me that the answers are almost always right there in nature ( it eats polyurethane, for crying out loud), and we can't seem to deny it fast enough as a species.
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic atom gray wrote: it continually amazes me that the answers are almost always right there in nature (it eats polyurethane, for crying out loud), and we can't seem to deny it fast enough as a species. Hear hear; this is truly awesome... I'm sure Paul Stamets is aware of this, and is probably already hatching some interesting plans to use this species in mycoremediation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoremediation).
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic Well I do have one question that many viewers asked, If it eats polyurethane, what does it excrete? Hopefully the biproducts of the fungus arent malignant. If whatever they poop out is truely organic and won't accumulate then it can mean the answer to a lot of global problems.
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Biff
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic brobles wrote: Well I do have one question that many viewers asked, If it eats polyurethane, what does it excrete?  Plastic Poop
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Mike Like Bike
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic Haha. Where do you think Gargamel got theirs from? 
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic Is this the same thing as the mythical KABI?
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Re: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic Biff wrote: brobles wrote: Well I do have one question that many viewers asked, If it eats polyurethane, what does it excrete? Plastic Poop Haha. Bravo sir.
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