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I remember reading an old SciFi book many years ago (decades?) about the scenario where a rapid plastic eating bacteria gets into the world.

Wish I could remember the name of it, as I roughly remember the book as being pretty good too. :)

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Do you mean the Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton [1] (also a movie) and I seem to remember it being a good watch when I last watched though that might be a good 15 years ago. The idea was novel enough it's stuck with me since and I do often joke with people about it, especially given from what I gather that certain types of funghi can now digest certain types of plastic [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain

[2] https://www.shroomer.com/mycoremediation-plastic-eating-mush...

Nah, it was definitely a different book. Thanks for trying though. :)

Doing some looking around online, I think it was Mutant 59:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0670496626

There's not much info about it on the Amazon page nor Goodreads, but there's a good review of it here:

https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/07/27/mutant-59-the-pl...

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