[awda]

> I don't see how microbes degrading plastics is any better than putting plastic bottles in a recycling bin so they can be melted down to make new ones."

You don't have to waste money and energy sorting bottles out of the trash if you can just dump a bunch of this bacteria in your landfill.

[dsmithatx]

The comment you are responding was what the scientists in the article concluded, not something I was saying.