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		jluan on Feb 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic I think this could be a good thing even if it did occur. We will be forced to significantly curtail our dependence on petroleum as a result.

ars on Feb 3, 2012 [–]

No, quite the opposite. We use plastic because it uses the _least_ petroleum of all structural materials.

If not for plastic we would have to use wood or metal, and both would take FAR more energy to work with and ship.

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