Gift from mother nature

[lunkerslayer]

https://www.google.com/amp/bgr.com/2017/04/24/plastic-eating-bugs-wax-moth-pollution/amp/



Mother Earth is one seriously gracious host. Humanity has done little else to the planet that produced us than completely destroy it at every turn. We dump toxic oil into oceans, irreversibly alter the climate, drive species into extinction, and pile heaps of trash everywhere we can find space for it. Nature owes us nothing, but it still finds a way to help us save our own hides on a regular basis. The latest example? How about a caterpillar that eats and breaks down the one thing humans have created that pollutes for centuries before decomposing on its own: plastic.
Well it does make sense if everything is composed of carbon, it is good news. But you can make plastic out of hemp oil that is biodegradable rather then using regular petroleum base plastics

Thanks GOD and all that is good

 

[Bed Wetter]

My dog eats plastic. Maybe i'll clone her.

 

[LBrandt]

If your dog eats plastic you will have plastic dog bombs to sell or throw into someones yard.

 

[Colt45]

Different kinds of plastic can degrade at different times, but the average time for a plastic bottle to completely degrade is at least 450 years. It can even take some bottles 1000 years to biodegrade, so somewhere out there the first plastic bottle ever made still exists intact, and will continue to exist for hundreds of years, unless someone threw it in the fire pit. Not sure how or with what we would replace plastic with, but if there is a bug that eats it that is good news.

 

[johnr]

I am at a constant disagreement with man made global warming, I am skeptical of the entire "science" of it. Algore said the world would end by 2014 if we didn't pay him trillions to fight it, well we didn't, and he did not fight it, and as far as I can tell the world is good. Who says a .0002 degree temp increase over a hundred year span is bad?

I also know that oil naturally leaks into the ocean without our help, and the extinction of critters happens regardless of my giant diesel, and cigar smoking.

We also have plenty of water, they world is like 75% water.

Not to turn this into a tree hugger against reality by any means, but I do not embrace the majority of that entire bunch of bs.

However I am excited that a caterpillar will eat plastic, its neat

 

[Duckslayer100]

https://www.google.com/amp/bgr.com/2017/04/24/plastic-eating-bugs-wax-moth-pollution/amp/



Mother Earth is one seriously gracious host. Humanity has done little else to the planet that produced us than completely destroy it at every turn. We dump toxic oil into oceans, irreversibly alter the climate, drive species into extinction, and pile heaps of trash everywhere we can find space for it. Nature owes us nothing, but it still finds a way to help us save our own hides on a regular basis. The latest example? How about a caterpillar that eats and breaks down the one thing humans have created that pollutes for centuries before decomposing on its own: plastic.
Well it does make sense if everything is composed of carbon, it is good news. But you can make plastic out of hemp oil that is biodegradable rather then using regular petroleum base plastics

Thanks GOD and all that is good

I saw this study. I believe they're actually meal worms. But check out the rate at which they can digest plastic. It's horribly slow. I don't remember the exact figure, but it would take something like 1,000 worms a few days to digest a single one of those Target bags. Or some such thing.

Not saying this isn't cool news, but we're far from producing meal worm farms to digest the mountains of plastic bottles choking our landfills.

 

[Bed Wetter]

I am at a constant disagreement with man made global warming, I am skeptical of the entire "science" of it. Algore said the world would end by 2014 if we didn't pay him trillions to fight it, well we didn't, and he did not fight it, and as far as I can tell the world is good. Who says a .0002 degree temp increase over a hundred year span is bad?

I also know that oil naturally leaks into the ocean without our help, and the extinction of critters happens regardless of my giant diesel, and cigar smoking.

We also have plenty of water, they world is like 75% water.

Not to turn this into a tree hugger against reality by any means, but I do not embrace the majority of that entire bunch of bs.

However I am excited that a caterpillar will eat plastic, its neat

Nailed it. Ever since we got no-sort recycling bins I've been recycling like a worm on a mission.

 

[guywhofishes]

the carbon cycle (trees, grasslands, crops, OCEANS, on and on and on and on) is so complex and monstrous and intertwined with the sun's power that anybody who claims to have a conclusive understanding is - by default - claiming to be God himself

REALLY dig into it and you will be forced to conclude that politicians are completely full of it when they say "the science is in on this and it's blah, blah, blah."

total BS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_carbon_cycle

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Bacteria or fungus eat plastic - I am quite certain.

Anybody who has smelled plastic sheeting or tarps that have laid around in a shed or some such for a few years can smell their funky farts/poop. Man do I hate the smell of rank old plastic sheeting etc.

 

[luvcatchingbass]

Better plastic bottle eating bugs than aluminum can eating bugs. If there was that would mean I would have to guard my beloved Keystone Lights even closer, don't need drunk aluminum can eating pests roaming the neighborhood.

 

[fish-r-man]

2 words I never thought would be in the same sentence, beloved, and keystone Lights......:::

 

[Davy Crockett]

How many of you kids collected "Return for deposit" bottles ? It was a nice little sideline.

 

[Bed Wetter]

I had no idea my grocery bags were f***in everything up so badly. And here I though it was just...
- tectonic movement
- solar flares
- volcanic activity
- massive nuclear shenanigans (tsarbomba, fukushima, etc)
- natural ecological and climatic evolution
- a complete lack of environmental standards or concern by the majority of the (non-American) world's population

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I heard that some south American tributaries are so polluted their eels have become electrified

 

[lunkerslayer]

How many of you kids collected "Return for deposit" bottles ? It was a nice little sideline.

I collected bottles and I still collect cans
Also I think mother nature has a lot of secrets left to share with the rest of us poor souls. Everything on this planet should be renewable in one form or another. It all comes down to cost effective ways to treat these problems we have cuased. Regardless if a moth can consume plastic it's the process at which the moth does is the value in this discovery. Being able to find the exact chemical composition, then synthesizing the chemical comp to gene splice with a much larger animal.

 

[Sub_Elect]

I collected bottles and I still collect cans
Also I think mother nature has a lot of secrets left to share with the rest of us poor souls. Everything on this planet should be renewable in one form or another. It all comes down to cost effective ways to treat these problems we have cuased. Regardless if a moth can consume plastic it's the process at which the moth does is the value in this discovery. Being able to find the exact chemical composition, then synthesizing the chemical comp to gene splice with a much larger animal.

If a synthesized much larger moth would eat plastic faster I had better get ride of my plastic siding on the house! EEEeeek, my house would be naked!

 

[johnr]

The water is life crowd will fix it all, they are neat.

Or algore himself, he just needs 15 trillion dollars, and it will be fixed.

 

[lunkerslayer]

If a synthesized much larger moth would eat plastic faster I had better get ride of my plastic siding on the house! EEEeeek, my house would be naked!

That will learn yah to go with steel next time

 

[HomeSlice]

spikes

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-26/common-catepillar-can-eat-plastic-bags-at-high-speeds/8472368

 

[LBrandt]

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The only time that something leaves earth is when we send it out in a rocket.

 

[JayKay]

I have to say, since we got the no-sort, or single-sort, or whatever the green and yellow can in my garage is for, my garbage can is quite a bit less full. So, that's got to be good news. Family of four generates a buncha garbage.

My wife is an absolute terror about using her reusable shopping bags at the store. Okay, good, works for me.

 

[lunkerslayer]

I have to say, since we got the no-sort, or single-sort, or whatever the green and yellow can in my garage is for, my garbage can is quite a bit less full. So, that's got to be good news. Family of four generates a buncha garbage.

My wife is an absolute terror about using her reusable shopping bags at the store. Okay, good, works for me.

There is no way you should be deprived of your own sparkly boat now helping to save the planet kudos