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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch (futurism.com)
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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Conveniently, nature has provided us with another carbon sequestration method that has a lot of other benefits, ranging from being a good building material, to helping regulate the local temperature: trees.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Yep, I concur. I'm of the opinion that that's all you need to solve this problem.