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Nature may have found a way to dispose of the huge amounts of plastic garbage, which has been increasingly accumulating in the oceans. A small bacteria feeding on it has been discovered. This may be a boon or a bane for the aquatic environment.
The bacteria was discovered through electron microscopy on plastic items sampled at the Sargasso Sea, an area in the North Atlantic, where debris tends to stack up due to local currents.
The primitive organisms live in pits in the plastic and appear to feed on it as well, says marine microbiologist Tracy Mincer of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
"They look like you took a hot barbecue briquette and threw it into snow," Nature News cites Mincer as saying. "You see this melting bit all around the outside of the cells, and they're just burrowing into the plastic."
The specialized bug is not encountered in other environment, like surrounding seawater or seaweed.
Scientists are not yet sure whether these organisms will eventually do more good than harm in dealing with pollution. If their digestion products are environmentally-friendly, then it would mean that nature has found a new way to limit the damage humanity does.
But plastic contains numerous toxins, and the bacteria may be introducing those into the food chain by feeding on it and then becoming food for larger organism.
this is great news
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its RT.COM i get all my info from. Not that CNN crap anymore
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Brought to you by anchorman claud. Lol
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Haha cheers!
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well i seem to post some odd things in my time on the forum. So way stop now
this NEWS MAN needs to be on the ball
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Why you make some pretty cool threads Claud.
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Thanks mate. You to
But i think this is great news, now finally something can be done with all them bags and things
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Thanks and yeah I agree at least something is doing its job to keep clean. Although less littering or none what help out as well.
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true mate. But us as humans will be always stupid to think a little littler is ok
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Yup there's always a person like that..can't do nothing about it
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true.. I know the world is fucked and dropping trash is the least of are worries. But it has to be up their
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If the byproducts of their plastic consumption isn't toxic, then this is great news.
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