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Equivalent-Ice-7274 t1_itq4kti wrote

Reply to comment by chriswhoppers in Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse by chrisdh79

Yes, but you would need thousands of mountain-sized piles of Oyster mushrooms to biodegrade all of the plastic waste.

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TheGingerHybrid t1_itqds6o wrote

While you are technically right, the solution doesn't have to happen all at once, and immediately. Small steps are how you get to a destination. And with this kind of problem, small steps are better than no steps.

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Foxodroid t1_itr0wom wrote

Maybe if we put real funding into it we can brute force our way to a good result. It's certainly worth the effort.

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