New Research to Find Environment-Cleansing Bugs

Hop-Frog writes: "Here is a report on work going toward engineering bugs to cleanse the environment. There are bugs to eat carbon, toxic waste and more. This should please many people of a variety of political persuations."

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Can't please all the people all of the time

[undeg chwech]

This should please many people of a variety of political persuations

Yeah ... it will please everyone who doesn't mind genetically engineered super-bacteria roaming the planet.

It'd be cool if....

[Snafoo]

Some big, suspicious corporation with many millions of dollars of PCB-filled waste containers slowly and secretly rusting in the Boston harbour could genetically engineer a microbe to take those PCBs and rip off the chlorine molecule so as to reduce the stuff to harmless saltwater.

But wait, this all sounds familiar...