A SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID

Apart from the fact that most of this is a lie - these scientists didn't "create" anything yet, much less "by accident." Nonetheless, these naive little snowflakes should win the Darwin Awards for the entire coming millennium at least - because they're about to set humanity back to the Stone Age faster than you can say "Allahu Akhbar!"

Just think (and remember that thinking is no longer a requirement for graduates of these so-called and self-promoting "institutes of higher learning and education" at all) - what will happen when all of our computer cases, monitors, PLASMA TVs, all the wiring in your cars, (even the electric cars!) and trucks and buses etc and in the circuitboards in all computers and other chip hardware, ROTS?

And what else is made of these inherently evil (to indoctrinated snowflake Millennials) "petroleum products!"?

GASOLINE is. Gas for your cars. Gas for our airplanes. Yes - you read that right:

PLANES WILL DROP FROM THE SKIES!

I strongly suspect some leftover bacteriums from the 1980s experiments to create some that eat oil-spills may be already responsible for several major aviation disasters so far - but this "new" development will make it certain!

From here:

Recycling 2.0: Scientists accidentally create mutant bacteria that dines on plastic

The researchers of the study said the discovery could help combat the world’s plastic problem

Researchers Bryon Donohoe and Nic Rorrer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) punching out coupon samples from a plastic bottle.DENNIS SCHROEDER / AFP PHOTO

Danielle Edwards

April 17, 2018
2:26 PM EDT
Last Updated
April 18, 2018
An accidental finding led to the creation of a mutant bacteria that breaks down plastic, the Guardian reports.

Researchers from Britain and the US stumbled on the discovery while working on a bug found outside a recycling plant in Japan that had naturally evolved to eat plastic.

The international team said it was originally tinkering with the bacteria to learn more about how it developed, but happened to make it more efficient in breaking down PET (polyethylene terephthalate), the kind of plastic used in plastic drink bottles.

According to the report, the bacteria creates enzymes when it comes into contact with the plastic that decompose the material. The enzymes can get through plastic in just days compared to the centuries it takes for the resistant PET to breakdown in landfills or oceans.

The researchers of the study said the discovery could help combat the world’s plastic problem. “What we are hoping to do is use this enzyme to turn this plastic back into its original components, so we can literally recycle it back to plastic,” said Dr. John McGeehan, who co-led the research. “It means we won’t need to dig up any more oil and, fundamentally, it should reduce the amount of plastic in the environment.”

In 2015, another study found between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean each year, but in an interview with Reuters, McGeehan said he and his team are hopeful their research will lead to a large-scale recycling process.

“It’s well within the possibility that in the coming years we will see an industrially viable process to turn PET, and potentially other (plastics), back into their original building blocks so that they can be sustainably recycled,” said McGeehan.