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Once we have plastic eating bacteria plastics will serve no useful purpose. Imagine your laptop rotting...

That's unlikely. Microorganisms break down wood too, and we build houses out of it!

Typically all you need to do to keep microorganisms from eating something is keep it dry. We tend to do that for laptops anyway.

And plastic food packaging?

Should probably be abolished anyway. But as long as the outside was dry, and the inside didn't have plastic-eating organisms, then it would still work.

Besides, the assertion wasn't that plastic would still be useful for everything. It just wouldn't be useless.

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