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Fungi found on coconut husks can decompose plastic, sunscreen (www.hawaii.edu)
submitted 1 week ago by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
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[–] avuko@infosec.exchange 25 points 1 week ago

@wolfyvegan

Of course it would be fungi. ;)

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

shit is sunscreen bad for the environment?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Chemical sunscreens can be. Mineral types that use zinc oxide or titanium oxide should be pretty okay to use.

[–] 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