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What kind of crucial infrastructure and components are made of the same plastics consumed by said bacteria/fungi? If it was released to just consume plastic what kind of damage could it do? Can we engineer such a thing just for ocean plastics?

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Doesn't this already happen with wood? How fast do wood homes deteriorate? I think there are some fundamental limits to how fast biological processes can process materials which will work in our favor. We'll have to make some adjustments to how we build things (making some things more accessible so they can be easily maintained/replaced) but relative to climate change that doesn't seem like that bad of a problem.

> Doesn't this already happen with wood? How fast do wood homes deteriorate?

Very fast, that's one of the reasons we cover wood homes with protective layers of non-wood materials, including plastics.

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