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Fungi found on coconut husks can decompose plastic, sunscreen (www.hawaii.edu)
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[–] failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to 2 points 1 week ago

@wolfyvegan

I spent some time looking into this
As far as I can tell, the coconut husk thing is BS, cause it is well known and has been for some time that fungi can at least partially degrade some plastics

I was to lazy to see if the method used, an agar plate plaque assay, actually measues plastic degredation