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Could Bioremediation Turn Pacific Garbage Patch Into Habitable Island?
A research group out of University College London is proposing an unusually ambitious upcycling scheme—turning all that plastic junk swirling about the Pacific into a habitable island. The students aim to design and release a really tiny, genetically engineered, synthetic plastic-eating organism that could aggregate all those bottle caps, plastic bags, and broken toys into floating real estate or what they’ve called the “Plastic Republic.“
Click for Video & Article: Land Grab: Could Bioremediation Turn Pacific Garbage Patch Into Habitable Island?
(Note: Personally I think calling it a “Patch” makes it smaller in people’s minds, and therefore nothing worrisome. This is wrong, because it needs as much attention as possible.)