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New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour
(www.sustainableplastics.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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It's a fair view that something forcefully introduced by us would be more of an appendix than a fully integrated digestion-feeding system, I'll agree to that. I guess I'm being overly optimistic in my assessment regarding the integration of such a mutation in stable populations and the link from digestion to feeding.
Practically, we would try to predict this for each enzyme we introduce, and wed get it wrong sometimes and right other times, some plastics might prove to be very tasty others might not. But in general I'd lean towards most plastic probably not getting natural decomposers, personally, but maybe!