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I did not suggest that. I merely asked if a new ecosystem was being 
generated in which micro-organisms are living on this plastic sargaso sea.

PtP

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Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Plastic-eating bacteria in the ocean?


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> There are bacteria that will eat almost anything, but I have never heard 
> it suggsted that they are abundant enough to cope with all the plastic 
> waste in the sea. If there were a bacterium capable of doing this, it 
> would already be hard at work in the landfills of the world. Plastic in 
> the sea is less concentrated than in landfills.
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> Also, I have no idea of what these bacteria turn plastic into.
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> I suspect that the bacteria that PtP refers to will prove to raise more 
> problems than they solve.
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> Bill Silvert
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>> Last night's ReGenesis tv program dealt with a bacterium which was eating 
>> through plastic wire coatings.
>>
>> Are there bacteria feeding on that great plastic mass in the Pacific and 
>> forming a new ecosystem and food chain?
>>
>> PtP
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