Putting my sci-fi/apocalypse tin foil hat on:
Someone engineering an airborne bacteria that lives off plastics would probably collapse the world economy and kill half the population.
Someone engineering an airborne bacteria that lives off plastics would probably collapse the world economy and kill half the population.
"A plane dissolves in mid-air, its plastic components eaten away. Doomwatch faces its first challenge: to halt the disastrous spread of a man-made virus with the power to melt all plastic."