• WesternInfidels@feddit.online
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    3 hours ago

    The ones I remember reading about all come with a big caveat: The organisms can only work after the waste has been through some capital and energy intensive pre-treatment, like thermal depolymerization, which makes the economics unworkable for recycling.

    Maybe one day we can do the heat treatment with direct solar energy.