This is encouraging if they're onto something! I've been obsessing over it lately, finding some way to actually recycle or at least destroy plastic. Sadly I don't have that kind of background.

There isn't gonna be "profit" in this. But man, people are voluntarily putting subdermal chips in themselves to become diet-cyborgs, and gene-hacking plants together in their garages.

Ironically, look at 3D printing and how that exploded! (As well as the very niche research into spooling plastic bottles and stuff into filament!)

Plastics up-cycling or elimination has to be headed by hobbyist hacker types more than anything. It won't get the grants, it won't get the government sign-offs, and in sheer mind-blowing stupidity, waste production is projected to increase exponentially in the next coming years.

There's plenty of people with hard science degrees getting ignored for jobs, getting radicalized just by looking out their window. I know it's a complicated subject, but coordinating efforts like distributed protein folding and I dunno, limited use of LLM to scientifically predict things...

People way smarter than me gotta be on this already right? We gotta figure this out and open-source it to anybody and everybody who wants to deploy it, before the world's big players has a chance to do anything to stop us.

We need a "de-maker" movement as much as we needed the maker movement.