Put a gene in a bacterium that codes for the enzyme. Turn it loose to clean up the waste. The bug evolves. Soon it is in our homes and machines and cleaning up modern civilization. A veritable Frankansteen. Facetious to be sure, but not quite out of the realm of possibilities.
Parsec
Apr 16, 2018But as pointed out in this article we have dumped millions of tons of bacteria food into the environment. They may eat it slow, but they do break it down. That combined with the effects of the sun and the open ocean currents, means that a lot of it is going away all the time. We are simply adding 10x to the problem for every 1x broken down.
The solution is to stop allowing plastics into our bodies of water. Another is to make the plastics themselves more degradable. The idea of sucking it all up and treating it with enzyme's in huge containers is ludicrous.