Sounds like a great discovery until you get to the end of the article

> Mincer said the study was impressive and did a good job showing that these organisms were eating the plastic pretty well.

> However, he said it was not immediately clear whether or not it would help keep plastics out of the ocean, for example. "When I think it through, I don't really know where it gets us," he said. "

>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."