An international team of researchers has decided to take advantage of those strains and bundle plastic-eating bacteria into the plastic. To keep them from eating it while it's in use, the bacteria is mixed in as inactive spores that should (mostly—more on this below) only start digesting the plastic once it's released into the environment. To get this to work, the researchers had to evolve a bacterial strain that could tolerate the manufacturing process. It turns out that the evolved bacteria made the plastic even stronger.

Je suis curieux de voir le résultat une fois que ce sera au point pour un usage en conditions réelles.

Je crains aussi que, comme trop souvent, cette innovation soit réduite au statut d'excuses pour pouvoir produire toujours plus — ou à minima autant — de plastique qu'avant. L'innovation technique au service du business as usual.