Nature has learnt how to eat our plastic!

Nature always finds a way..so they say! But it looks like it may actually be true in the case of our global plastic waste dilemma. Genetic mutations have been discovered in specific natural bacteria that enable them to break the polymer chains of certain plastics. Where have we found these bacteria? Well...in plastic recycling dumps of course. So, gloves and masks on everyone. We're going in!
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[@chandanjatav9544]

Humanity: "Fails to prevent pollution" Nature: Fine I'll do it myself.

[@dan5609]

Thanks nature, you're awesome.

[@erendripaeger9875]

Yayyyyy

[@mikker32]

Nature will always find a way, we can' kill the planet, but we are slowly making the planet uninhabitable for humans, but not slowly enough to evolvement can follow

[@BalboaBaggins]

Most humans don't deserve to live on this beautiful planet.

[@Pxhyre]

@@mikker32 uninhabitable means its habitable stupidf

[@ramenseller]

‘Nature has learnt how to eat plastic’ The Kardashians : *sweating profusely*

[@Don.alione]

This comment gon pop off

[@theceoofracism8920]

The Kardashians are ridiculously overrated

[@glhfggwp6232]

lol this comment got me laughing

[@Tripple_Threatt92]

That’s cold 🥶😂

[@austeyen5628]

wym?? people are gonna kill for some ass eating bacteria

[@chienbanane3168]

Imagine a future where these bacteria proliferate, and plastics become rare, valuable, and high maintenance materials

[@Mormanizer]

Or how about sanitary packaging...

[@friendlyneighborhoodcrackh6059]

@World Academy Of Music That’s not really how that works

[@DieFlabbergast]

It will be an ongoing arms race. New, bacteria-resistant materials will be invented and flourish for a while, until the microbes find a way to eat them. Then the cycle resumes.

[@NAUM1]

Well we have landfills full of plastic. Dig it up.

[@ThomasBomb45]

@World Academy Of Music bacteria can already eat us. After we're dead

[@wetdroidedition2549]

"The earth doesn't share our prejudice toward plastic" George Carlin

[@kevinsantos5050]

That wad our purpose in nature to create plastic Now we can go Man he wad truya ahead of his time

[@stephensauer9199]

“Could be the answer to the great question, why are we here?” Earth: “Plastic, asshole.”

[@monad_tcp]

@Unmutual but in the long run, billions of year, it will, just like lignin from plants became coal. Plastic is amazing, just like Coal.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@monad_tcp - Yeah plastic is simply AMAZING. Its not the actual invention that plastic is that is the problem. More the billions and billions of tones of it that are not currently biodegrading and are clodding up the world. You look male from your picture, if you are your testosterone is low, if you wear synthetic fibre clothes it is likely critically low as your clothes leach estrogen-mimicking chemicals directly into your skin. A thing the fast fashion industry is quietly spending billions to find a solution to BEFORE it blows up as a massive disaster and destroys the industry.

[@theoverman4478]

@@piccalillipit9211 It's funny how few people know about plastic based clothing toxicity. I've known about it for some years now and choose my clothes very much on the basis of what their made of, unlike anyone I know. And surely, 99% have never even heard about this.

[@bananaspice1967]

This doesn't mean we should dump everything in the oceans again.

[@youpickedthewronghousefool7869]

And thats a fact

[@rathenn6959]

Yeah we need to stop India and China doing this. They are - by far - the worst culprits.

[@logangagnepain7154]

Yes sir. Lets not get lazy!

[@Creative_Icarus]

Yes

[@scottgeorge4760]

It's illegal to throw trash in the ocean in my Country.

[@TheDrexxus]

As the great Dr. Ian Malcolm once said: "Life... Ah... Ah... Uh.... Finds a way."

[@wyattguilliams9472]

Life uh finds a way You got the quote wrong but I got your meaning

[@kenzyvaz7201]

Yeah ah......um..... Yo-your right

[@arrowsaurus7561]

Wyatt Guilliams r/woooosh

[@Kleo3392]

To make me vomit!

[@mmccracken2750]

Stop reading my mind!!!!

[@chicobicalho5621]

In 1992, I bought a PET 1.5 liter bottle of mineral water in Rio de Janeiro, and kept it in my fridge because the spout had a handy disk like shape that made it ergonomical to lift up, and it was made from a sturdier plastic. Today, 31 years later, the same bottle is still in use, perhaps having been filled more than 10 thousand times with water from a filter. Amazing to think a product that was meant to be used once, being used 10 thousand times, and still going strong!

[@NewEarthAwakening]

I believe the actual Thomas Edison quote was “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% ripping ideas off Nikola Tesla, destroying his body of work with thugs, and having your friends write the history books for you.”

Factually Tesla was a front man promoted as GE's version of Edison. In reality US industry was stealing ip hand over fist from every corner of the planet and claiming it as it's own. You have in effect fallen for an ad campaign that's over a century old.

[@coolpoolshark]

@ Then, how come Tesla still died poor? And, did you know Edison co-founded GE? GE version of Edison sounded illogical.

@@coolpoolshark You should learn the meanings of words.

[@coolpoolshark]

@ You should learn to speak meaningful words.

@@coolpoolshark This is called writing not speaking, yet another example.

[@taroken8846]

Let's not push her to the point where she has to learn to eat humans

[@icouldntthinkofagoodname7216]

There's always the ice age or meteor option to wipe us out. Or the famous story Noah's ark.

[@naheem1845]

She already consumes us! What do you think bacteria and viruses are? Scary!

[@charmainelugay8719]

@@naheem1845 i think it still is not enough since humans tends to keep looking for a cure. How about letting the high and mighty sun to burn us all? Hmmm.

[@Kurigo]

Too late, there are bacteria that are flesh eating.... No cure too...

[@GOMFER11]

Or stop giving us oxygen or change it to some toxic air. the thing that makes me and you have life

[@nitr8]

"Romper Stomper Plastic Chomper" would have looked good on a shirt

[@au1317]

Only to be worn by muppets. The lady has spoken.

[@lunaflamed]

It can still look good on a shirt

[@Jason-mv4go]

Available at the Merch store

[@firsteerr]

rompus stompus pasticus chumperous ..their latined up

[@gelbert12]

I could buy that.

[@ernestocaamano7818]

Meanwhile, humans have been eating plastic since the invention of kraft American cheese singles 😁 and other copy cats of the same product

[@teekotrain6845]

Margarine is one molecule away fro being a plastic. Lol

[@briseboy]

THe first plastics were bakelite, phenol and formaldehyde, developed in 1907 (part;y, tragically, from wood. The next was Rayon - nitrocellulose, developed, again, from living trees. in 1832. In 1855 by Georges Audemars. Acette film for pictures 1910 (the older stuff wold brn too easil fom the heat of projectors and speed.) Polyamide - Nlon - Dupont labs in late 1920s, better than silk. But as yet, spider silk remains stronger than any manmade fiber, though those plastics have made products that can vary between stretchable and unbreakability enough to use fo to stop bullets. The world welcomes the bacteria that can eat it, and their genomes are carefully sequestered from public, probably to keep Coca Cola corporation alive, as I wold love to shed some of those bacteria at the numerous bottling plants that contribute to dewatering springs, water tables and desert valleys of many mountains I know. It's NO secret thta Americans eat plastic and garbage - just go to an of theri fast food joints. You, too can quickly attain the sexy shape of a soccer ball - 40% of America is Obese, and almost 70% strive to imitate the football shape ethic, calling it "curvy."

[@deus_ex_machina_]

You're supposed to remove the plastic film before consumption...

[@ernestocaamano7818]

@@deus_ex_machina_ your joke was cute but not hilarious 😒😒

[@KuriusOranj]

I've always found it hilarious that the worst cheese product on the planet is proudly called, American cheese. Cracks me up every time.

[@corvetteenthusiast5163]

1:39 "It's not a scientific term now is it you muppet". Simply hilarious. 😂😂😂😂

[@Dodgerog]

Wondered why he kept looking off to the side! -) Its always good to have ‘helpful’ input to bring you back down to earth.

[@benjaminyaary8419]

2020:sorry how bout we give you plastic eating bacteria

[@mjm3091]

that would be nice after the awful first half of the year

[@aliensguy4291]

@@mjm3091 plot twist, it mutates even more and grows exponentially and eats EVERYTHING made of plastic(which is like 90% of modern tech)

[@loveculture5250]

@@aliensguy4291 Plot twist plastic sanitizers in 2025 lol.

[@CarLos-wd9xc]

@@aliensguy4291 don't give 2020 more ideas :)

[@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724]

That's a good thing. Earth trying even though we just keep making messes.

[@knightsofnee8626]

Just to clarify for some people: this DOES NOT mean we should KEEP POLLUTING LIKE WE ARE.

[@lucaslucas191202]

I mean that fully depends on how good they become. If they end up degrading plastic in a manner of days throwing into the ocean would be like throwing leaves in there. Though that's not likely to happen

[@typoriver3651]

@@lucaslucas191202 Kinda off topic a bit, but I'm a marine biologist that goes out to sea a lot. One of the strangest things I've seen are fully intact leaves floating out in the middle of the ocean that come up in dredges. No damage, no decomposition, no degradation at all. I can't explain what it is about leaves that the ocean just doesn't really affect them, but I can tell you it is weird. Not that I'm saying you shouldn't toss leaves into the ocean, but I'm just saying that simile doesn't really work lol.

[@timothymcalpin3147]

Actually this would automatically make recycling plastic a lot more useful. But this brings up the question of what other synthetic materials bacteria can evolve to eat.

[@alinastanescu4430]

Yes, this means we should polute more(I am joking)

[@knightsofnee8626]

@@lucaslucas191202 I had the feeling some people would just see the thumbnail or watch the first 3 minutes and be like "Well, problem solved!".

[@andrewbarr4611]

Love your work Dave. I am fascinated (and abhorred) by the fact that smashing up glass bottles to "recycle" them is promoted as a great sustainability approach. The energy used in destroying and remaking a perfectly usable article must be immense. Glass bottles used to be used because of their ability to be used over and over again. Can you do a segment on why bottles aren't simply refilled?

[@bertwesler1181]

A Taiwanese high school student found a plastic eating germ on the gut of a common horned bottle that lives in the mountains of Taiwan. Coincidentally, in the same year an American high school student found a other gut microbe that also eat plastic. (I don't recall the creature it came from.) So, as the Jurassic Park aphorism goes; "Life will find a way."

[@jasondphoenix]

*Bacteria that eats plastic exist* "Somewhere in the distance, the Kardashians are screaming in horror and they don't know why"

[@deathbyproxy2]

LMAO

[@Lucas-wb8px]

Lmao

[@steveessary2539]

Holy shit that was funny man when I first read it I was like what about one second later damn near pissed myself laughing

[@Sharkpop0]

HAH. ITS THE END OF THE LINE, KARDASHIANS

[@pyrrehraus6571]

@Matarael, Angel of Rain the South will soon become a formless amalgamate of flesh and mold

[@Cauldron6]

Plants: not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

[@hendystark8333]

*we weed

[@nilsharms8197]

, but the hero weed

[@cereal8974]

Plants deserve it

[@ooooneeee]

This video is about a bacterial enzyme though?

[@jishwashah2858]

This video is so amazing getting technical while giving the scientists credit. I'm using it as my main reference for a post-grad presentation. Love from India.

[@loctite222ms]

Funny that I saw a similar idea in a Sci-Fi book decades ago. The story mentioned an organism that learned to eat polyethylene and industry had to stop using it. Was in one of Larry Niven's Ringworld books I think...

[@cshenko]

I am going out to look in my recycle can and if I discover a plastic eating bacteria I will be sure to name it Romper Stomper Plastic Chomper :P

[@gasdive]

Chomperi

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

Or ReSPeCt for short.

[@timhallas4275]

Chris Shenko: Resistance is futile.

[@gameresearch9535]

It sounds like corruption to me, because have you ever heard of Flash Graphene? We should be making plastic and garbage into carbon atoms, "especially since a lot of people and families throw away a lot of food, such as vegetables", so that we can make it into Flash Graphene. Here are 2 videos on that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqvQZnSDhauAp9U kzbin.info/www/bejne/fauno6GlfMl_hZY Want to know more about Graphene and what it is, what it does, the products so far, and where we are at with it, and Flash Graphene? Check out my other channel. kzbin.info/aero/PLAUtk-Q2DF7xsjVfESM1sqZdkHJYRw--j And this link after you watch all videos in the playlist from the first link. www.herox.com/VenusRover/forum/thread/5157 Graphene and Quantum Technologies are where we should look into for all issues, the coronavirus, Global Warming, Earth Quakes, medical field, financial field such as the economy, and so much more. Please check out all videos from top to bottom in each playlist, watch all playlists, check out each playlist description, with the articles, info and links, also links to official websites. Don't forget to check back with each playlist for updates, it might not show you unless you manually check. And please share, this isn't something we should ignore or have a short - mind span about, this changes everything and for the near future from breakthroughs and also beyond that, this is something to take very serious with all the stuff on my other channel, not to be pessimistic and skeptical, be interested, and open your mind to change your mindset, look for alternatives and think creative at a "whole other level" of "good" innovation, you will see what I meant by that when you see everything on my other channel in the links. Please check out everything, literally everything on my other channel, all videos and articles, info and links.

[@livedandletdie]

Just throw regular meal worms into the heap. They will happily consume PET plastics. After all their gut bacteria can break it down. It's not that weird seeing as cellulose and plastics have similar chemical structures.

[@fodee4313]

"Plastic eating bacteria" People that had a plastic surgeries: *Sad dancing*

[@BornotB-ij9xk]

How original

[@4dalight]

menotplaying go away you actual waste of space

[@noname-sk3hl]

Korea declared a national mourning day

[@Place_Holder-cl5hk]

That actually makes me wonder what will happen

[@foosington]

@@BornotB-ij9xk there are too many things I can think of that are way more original than this

[@te4186]

Delighted to have discovered this channel. Some well-presented and highly relevant content here that I will continue to look out for. Thank you !

[@grig8310]

I feel like more people need to leave Petrie dishes out So many things will be discovered...

[@prophecyrat2965]

Pasture has netted the chat

[@tim40gabby25]

Spotting serendipity is the trick - imagine if the cleaner had got there before Fleming :) such near misses must be happening frequently. ie my plastic steering wheel surfaces degrade faster than others. Do I have unusual hand bacteria?

[@alkaholic4848]

I'm doing my bit to contribute. With enough laziness you can also turn your kitchen into one giant petri dish.

[@BitchItsJules]

Genus: Romperstomper Species: plasticchomper

[@zanediezeljuan8999]

Julian Bruck Genius*

[@WheezyShotta]

Anonymous User no

[@leonchen7707]

Julian Bruck Genie*

[@Matthew_MBG]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@justanotherasian4395]

There are 4 replies and all of them make me want to die.

[@giobottan6027]

Energy source: exist Nature: It's free real estate

[@WizzerdGaming]

You're not wrong there

[@yusufsaood5484]

Okeh

[@CoolerGuy121]

💀

[@MMD88]

A bit like my cousin

[@dracast999]

Gio Bottan Tesla

[@douglasgoldstein8990]

This is exactly why aliens never use plastic in their spaceships.

[@DieFlabbergast]

How do you know they don't? Are you an alien yourself?

[@douglasgoldstein8990]

@@DieFlabbergast we're all aliens here.

[@RCSVirginia]

Douglas Goldstein As happened to the Ringworld civilization in Larry Niven's novel.

[@monad_tcp]

They use UUB, unobitanion

[@leoclark5831]

This new way to break down plastic is f*ng AWESOME!!!

[@asianpersuasion4901]

he really had his wife (or whoever that was) call him a muppet what a madlad

[@SameLif3]

C F Y O W 🤣 W T F

[@ananousous]

That wasn't in the scrpt

[@kekistanihelpdesk8508]

More likely his mother

[@sw8190]

Definitely not his mother 😆

[@nathanrolle7931]

Nature: *finds a way to deal with pollution* Humans: (write that down, Write that down)

[@GuidoF16]

That’s called photosynthesis.

[@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479]

@@GuidoF16 photosynthesis absorbs radiation from the sun, not plastic

[@Adub12]

That’s how you know that Man cannot beat nor escape nature and nature will always prevail.

[@lainbecomehuman4612]

Humans always copywriting

[@tdzbacon3640]

I mean, Nature IS supposed to adapt to changes, it’s not suprising.

[@emiliocisneros7745]

Sir, hats off. I find your explanations beautifully presented and plainly logical to follow for a layman. I am a chemist but I love the scientific and technical support of your videos and the degree of depth and bibliographic references. Thanks so much.

[@ericr154]

Yours is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Thank you for all the knowledge. Have a great day!

[@willgouin445]

I would be thrilled if i turned on the nightly news and saw: breaking news, a new bacteria named romper stomper plastic chomper has been discovered

[@patthecat6491]

"Romper stomper plastic chomper"! Definitely need more scientific names like this. 😄

[@esra_erimez]

+1

[@aboodz]

Please sign the petition to change the name 😂😂

[@nobilismaximus]

Sounds to fascist... romper stomper was a movie about being nazis in Australia.

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

MeerSchijvenMeerWijven Damn! You beat me to it, I just made this comment on another thread.

[@cisterna95]

@@nobilismaximus it can be the final solution to plastic question. So the name is good .

[@monad_tcp]

Wow, this is a major breakthrough, just like lignin.

[@afnankhokhar5578]

So glad to have found your channel. Keep up the good work!

[@baophung9]

It’s a crime that this hasn’t made international news

[@nicwat10]

I hope it never made news just think about how much more plastic would be thrown in the wilderness

[@teecarter4900]

Media needs a protagonist and antagonist. Preferably with differences.

[@teecarter4900]

@@nicwat10 maybe, but do you think that is mainstream media main concern?

[@effexon]

yeah our so called press is utterly useless. priorities are wrong. yeah i know climate change exists after 10,000th time but i want to know about this too.

[@effexon]

@Willy S yeah I know this too, but point is putting little research funding into this, it can be solved, not play like we couldnt do anything. As nature has a solution, it's just engineering problem (are biochemists engineers?) to make this happen.

[@Geroaergaroe]

9:30 : Mankind greatest asset strikes again : sheer dumb luck.

[@solidagold115]

Well it takes some intelligence to even know you got lucky and can actually use it.

[@zainshaikh527]

@@solidagold115 all we are is opportunistic. That's also our biggest headache now. The most vile and shitty fast food version of the opportunity grabbers are running things. The second people to run things are even further pathetic and will surely be the end before we degrade to be practically hopeless

[@mrlee6516]

Underrated

[@Kavukamari]

no kidding

[@kobiromano6115]

I'd look at it as "Capitalism solves problems, eventually"

[@kimwelch4652]

This reminds me of the aircraft incident in Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain (the book not the movie). A fighter plane crashes because the alien Andromeda bug mutates from eating flesh to eating plastics and quickly dissolved the pilot's plastic face mask. It is clear that plastics are no longer forever, though our terrestrial bugs will probably take longer to eat them up than the Andromeda bug.

[@wilsonphillips697]

Just found your channel. Great presentation and thank you for the links to the supporting documentation.

[@UltimatePerfection]

When you're a scientist, but your work makes you look like a homeless crazy guy picking through trash.

[@madensmith7014]

All you need is to wear a lab coat and suddenly you're a scientist again. A mad scientist anyway...

[@theoverseer393]

That's a common science thing

[@Tremor244]

@@madensmith7014 and have a slightly crazy haircut, no one will question you haha

[@lunaflamed]

LOL!! RIGHT!!

[@lunaflamed]

@@Tremor244 Nah, some night think it was a drunk self hair cut of a homeless person.

[@Katsunai]

So basically if this Romper stomper actually grows to huge numbers and is able to speedily degrade plastic, then it's both good and bad. Good- Plastic can be degradable. Bad- Plastic can be degradable. Ooof

[@misterae6430]

Just keep the bacteria and plastic u want to degrade isolated. The bacteria has noo way of surviving if it doesnt have plastic to feed on

[@karmotrine8837]

That's kinda the thing, though. Plastic is sorta everywhere...

[@healthya7975]

Plastic surgery better be scared

[@lukedaniel8654]

@Dog Faced Pony Soldier great idea 👏🏽

[@lukedaniel8654]

@@healthya7975 😂👏🏽

[@augustvansuchtelen1723]

thank you kindly for all the videos you provided in the past present and future .. their all very enjoyable and I always learn from them you earned my subscription as well

[@seanbell6371]

‘Muppet”. LOL that did make me laugh. Totally awesome.

[@JaskHuma]

“It’s not a scientific term is it you muppet” that just made my day literally 😂

[@TUNE-Editor]

I thought it was moppet

[@sloakadani]

Marriage in a nutshell! xD

[@FahadAyaz]

Yeah, a muppet is a nice/non-aggressive way of calling someone an idiot in the UK 😅

[@FahadAyaz]

@Marrowbones 🙊

[@SpiritmanProductions]

For non-UK viewers: 'muppet' is a friendly way of calling someone mildly stupid. Similar terms: plonker, wally, silly sausage. :-)

[@klaxxor]

"Life, Uh, Finds a Way" - Dr. Ian Malcolm

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

It typically takes its time though.

[@Life-tastic]

HEHEHE PLASTIC GOES GURGLES

[@Insomnia4321]

@@TheAkashicTraveller evolution is a slow process

[@quinndepatten4442]

With or without humanity

[@matthewbrightman3398]

Recently started watching your content. Very happy!!

[@viperswhip]

This was the most hopeful video I've ever watched, thank you so much.

[@saulw6270]

Don’t let joe Rohan find out dMt breaks down plastic it’ll change his world

[@nukacola9456]

King Saul rogan*

[@pnutimusthe1st]

What about Dave Gondor?

[@jjackandbrian5624]

It's not the same chemical, the one in the video has no effect on humans, only causing damage when it comes in contact with your eyes. Different chemical, same abbreviation.

[@ananousous]

"God told me to destroy Joe Rogan!"

[@TaddiestMason]

the dmt is a component of plastic, it doesn't break it down. did you watch the video? it was very clear.

[@peterjol]

One of the most exciting bits of 'good' news I have heard in ages

[@unnamedchannel1237]

Best thing since crustless bread .

[@classicrocklover5615]

SSSHHH- 2020 will hear you...

[@livedandletdie]

It is a really old news though over 10 years old news...

[@jsveiga]

Good? We already worry about moths eating our clothes, silverfish eating our books and termites eating our furniture. And now we have these eating everything that's left!

[@tobiahtoviyahgoodnessof349]

Yes good news indeed

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

This will not only totally dispose of plastic, it will also cause plastic packaging to rot, thus rendering it useless.

[@lumotroph]

This is fantastic! What clear presentation. Thank you

[@cymes82]

"Nature has learnt how to eat our plastic!" Millions of fish and turtles: *Are we a joke to you?*

[@jackrutledgegoembel5896]

that one hurt

[@houraisanproductions5879]

@@jackrutledgegoembel5896 ikr

[@zynel413]

@@jackrutledgegoembel5896 This gets 6 yikes out of 10.

[@CaptainK-eo4dp]

Lmao

[@user-nj7hm4xn6l]

So let me get this straight you think that the millions of turtles and fishes should be eating the plastic and die.

[@PbasijiR]

Fast forward a bit “News: man comes back to see his car has been degraded half way after a 2 month trip”

[@Woolley_like_sheep]

Was thinking exactly that. Doesn’t this mean that all out plastic things will basically rot over time

[@gytux0258]

@@Woolley_like_sheep just need to keep them clean

[@Tore_Lund]

@@Woolley_like_sheep This is as big a threat as any pandemic. Not that we aren't capable of using other plastics, like the chlorinated ones, that are impossible to break down, but the cost and environmental consequences of substituting all plastic in the world? The thing with bacteria is they can exchange genomen between species, so one plastic eating bacteria becomes a plethora of strains eating different kinds of plastic.such bacteria, destroying most tech, is mind boggling

[@Rizzehh_]

@@Tore_Lund Well, I hope we humans can figure out ways to counter it.

[@babedont]

What about coating it with x substance, making a barrier?

[@thaddeuseanl2166]

Romper stomper plastic chomper. Actually made my day 🤣🤣🤣👌👌👌 Just got a sub for that. Genuinely amazing.

[@danielwackerman7749]

One of the rare bits of news that inspires. Thank you.

[@villnthefield.8881]

I live in America this is the best news I’ve heard in 2 years...

[@AOitsAO]

So you live in Peru or something

[@bwebb90]

@@AOitsAO hahha =/

[@RustingPeace]

@@AOitsAO usa... Someone in peru would never say he lives in america

[@misterae6430]

I fel you, even though im from Europe. America hasnt been in its best shape for quite some time now.. :/

[@zyan983]

Trump lol, feel sorry for you guys

[@KovahhavoK]

"Did someone say DMT?" *Joe Rogan has entered chat*

[@saltyapostle44]

I left a similar comment then looked below to see who beat me to it.

[@SahilP2648]

@@saltyapostle44 Joe Rogan IS DMT. Lmao I want to try it once and go to another dimension, into a black hole, emerge out of a white hole in another universe and find 10 dimensional beings trying to tell me why emergence, this universe, and life exists

[@unocualqu1era]

In my opinion, I think both of you say things that are true. For most people, psychedelics are not useful because they're not ready for them and won't use them for self-improvement and meditation. For most people, using good old fashioned brain power and reflection is how you develop your inner realm. I also agree with the fact that you have to set your own goals for how you want to be and put in the work and taking enough drugs will set you backwards, and that includes psychedelics. But I do think psychedelics can be insightful and helpful in rare cases to snap people out of bad situations, and there were studies about helping against alcohol addiction for example, but that's assuming they're also the kind of person to get any useful effects of psychedelics. And by kind of person I mean a very complex combination of personality and current mental state, I'm not talking about open minds or weird shamanistic rituals or anything else. They shouldn't be ignored by the scientific community as a novel treatment for rare cases of addiction, depression, etc. More research should be done about DMT, LSD and also Ketamine. I think they're not a magic solution to anything, but they can be the kick some people need to start changing their lives for the better. However it's important to point that it's just a kick, a spark to light the flame, and then you'd have to keep the flame going by yourself. It's not something you'd use to do the work and the thinking for you (because it won't).

[@28russ]

Yep, knew this comment would be here

[@ka-ge7870]

Bob Bobbertson You’re a moron. Anyone who smokes enough of it WILL breakthrough and encounter beings. Everyone don’t listen to this tool. He thinks he is special. He is not. Listen to Terence McKenna on how to smoke it and make sure you smoke enough and you will leave your body and beings will find you.

[@andrewinglis2069]

just found your channel very interesting and thought provoking

[@dennisroland5654]

Utterly fascinating. Thank you.

[@toastiboi7618]

The media: I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that

[@nicwat10]

It good that they don't show could you imagine how much more plastic that people would throw

[@Aknayelth]

@@nicwat10 true

[@Aknayelth]

I think is the only time i will actually understand why they will not show this

[@thenatureofnurture6336]

Scaring the public to take actions is the main purpose owners of the media have for it. Bad news is the only good news in their eyes.

[@Name-kd5jj]

Too busy bitching about Trump to cover real stories. Whether you like Trump or not you gotta admit they need to leave him alone.

[@Lvl18Meep]

"Some Japanese scientist found out that a bacteria uses DMT to break down plastic, Jamie pull that up"

[@Mageblood]

I know you’re joking but it’s a different DMT if you didn’t know, Dimethyl Tryptamine is the Joe Rogan one

[@Rockstar-uq4li]

''Jamie pull my pants up."

[@KSmithwick1989]

Is it true that you can harvest DMT, by running butter knife on Joe Rogan's scalp?

[@FrostBitey10]

Looool

[@davisnicholas9123]

@@KSmithwick1989 or you can lick it directly

[@melaniefelicityagsten6301]

Today was a very good program, wonderful to hear about the discovery of petase and the paper product. Thank You

[@ceramicfish4934]

Great vid. Liked so much I subscribed. Keep up the good work

[@Shinzo1001]

Why do I feel like I'm in a back alley and I'm being told something I'm not supposed to know?

[@wyattguilliams9472]

@@richardflynn4112 Not as weird as it use to be trust me

[@Pugtail]

Cause ur high

[@colinsmith1495]

I had heard the basics of this, that we discovered a bacterium that eats some of our more 'indestructible' plastics, but I hadn't heard the details of enzyme isolation and manipulation. This was fascinating. And yes, they should have named it Romper Stomper Plastic Chomper.

[@SpiritmanProductions]

Entertaining _and_ informative. Thank you!

[@izziebon]

Brilliantly researched and presented

[@Sarcastican_]

Ah yes, gimme that crunchy boootle.

[@Spplaart]

Why would you type that

[@utamakunind7992]

Lmao

[@adminbob_]

why

[@adminbob_]

i’m going to cry

[@blankblank5409]

[Text Here] 😭

[@GlennElliottKeller]

Sludge that eats garbage discovered in Japan. 2020: Muk is born Guys Pokémon is becoming real.

[@NetiNeti-gm5bz]

The Anime country is showing us our reality is a hologram

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

I have a dog that runs a muk

[@Cernumospete]

So, you wanna tell me we can get a Charizard within this century?

[@viperswhip]

@@Cernumospete got to make the muk piles fight each other right? I am not a pokemon fan

[@earlaweese]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@FredWilbury]

Thank you for getting my brain out of the mire and getting me to think again .

[@sophiaevans3021]

Fab video. So informative and will be very useful for my biochemistry assignment. Thank you!

[@globalthinker4003]

George Carlin knew it in 1992 already: ”The Planet is a self-correcting system. And if it’s true that plastic isn’t degradeable, the planet will simply encorporate plastic in to a new paradigm, the planet + plastic.”

[@joshmarden9933]

Fun thought! George Carlin is the embodiment of the Universe, a "god" given gift to the inhabitants of this planet. Brilliant man.

[@Ziru0Gaming]

I was gonna say the same shit. Good thing I found your comment!

[@infinitefretboard]

Thanks. I was actually gonna mention this!

[@jillvalentinefan77]

Carlin was a visionary may he rest in peace.

[@andresguerrero3347]

well yeah here im waiting when some bacteria would eat nuclear waste bc that shit would last thousand of years even beyond our existence

[@FortoFight]

We're so lucky that the right people discovered this "sludge". Imagine if it had just been cleaned up without anyone thinking anything more of it.

[@JuanGuzzoSantana]

I was also thinking about it that way. In other perspective, imagine how much of these bacteria could be out there just waiting to be discovered? As he said in the video, it's just a matter of searching our junk :v

[@styromaniac6967]

I've seen plastic plates slowly melt in a gunky setting. These microbes are likely more common than we think.

[@Ldsyldsy]

Exactly as commenters have said. They are probably happening in many places, and nobody else paid attention to them.

[@edialbert8035]

Great video! Thanks for sharing 👍

[@geoffkail7393]

Great future and research. Thank You

[@remveel2443]

This is a great news, but I hope this doesn't change the fact that we should solve pollution. Not because nature does her part doesn't mean we don't do ours

[@youtubeaccount8056]

RONTIOZ FARRENGGOT agreed!

[@Ladis1]

Damn right.

[@maxk5065]

you didn't fully understood, they won't grow and realease those bacterias so that they multiply and do their job, they copy the enzyme so that they can sell a non multiplying version that you'll have to pay each time. rich country ll have plastic free rivers but poor ones won't and who ll pay for the entire ocean? no one... we NEVER do our part, american indian did, other groups like them did but we civilised man only extract more energy for more confort, welcolme to capitalism.

[@icouldntthinkofagoodname7216]

You can't stop it. Even if we start acting now, we can't repair the ozone layer.

[@AdolfHitler-pm3lc]

@@icouldntthinkofagoodname7216 Ozone layer has been show to repair itself, the hole that was present in 2009? Whatever year it was, has closed up

[@shimeih2287]

What wat wrong with romper stomper plastic chomper? Lady in background : It's not a scientific term is it you Muppet?😂😂😂😂

[@pineapplej7310]

This is an excellent channel, I love the vids

[@ferrywijaya2557]

Currently the enzymes we need (as someone in plastic industry myself) are PPase (this includes OPP), PEase (including HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE), POFase, and PVCase. PET generally reusable and reworkable, but the rest? That's the problem. Also these plastics usually came in form of tandem (lamination) of several layers of different plastics and ink (or aluminium), adding more challenge.

[@Ironsight_Player]

So when do human trials start? I've been dying to eat plastic.

[@scally2112]

You are already eating it, every day

[@lurr875]

Kevin Fairbrother yeah

[@Ironsight_Player]

@@scally2112 true

[@JetpacksWasYes2]

its already all in your body. you consume it. breath it. touch it everyday. it's part of why we're so fucked health wise

[@flax9999lp]

@@JetpacksWasYes2 Jeez good to know and i thought its the smoking, alcoholism, lack of excercise and general unhappiness that makes me feel like shit. Any solid proof that meh good ol'Plastic actually harms me in a significant way? If there is i really like to know but uh. Until know its just, meh, microplastic. Kinda sounds like it sucks then again theres plenty of things i cant digest that are just passed out again. If the body has no reason to pick it up, it just tosses it out like the husks of corn right?

[@thecommentguy9380]

Human: Makes lots of plastics. Nature: Improvise, adapt, overcome.

[@S3Mi87]

1. Humans are part of the nature. 2. Humans are the fastest and best adapting organisms nature created so far. 3. It will be humans that will use these bacteria on mass scale to remove all redundant plastic from "nature" in no time.

[@mysigt_]

DEVlIIL ”nature” is the chain. It has no position on the chain.

[@33du27]

@@mysigt_ nah bro i passed nature yesterday

[@ivanstephenlagangan4824]

Man I missed this meme. hahaha

[@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724]

And we human are like Darwanism this Darwinism that and only think of the bad part where you got to out compete others like it's all evolution is.

[@faustin289]

I didn't know plant leaves were covered in plastic. Nature never ceases to amaze me.

[@ooooneeee]

By definition biopolymers are not plastic because they are made by organisms. But they are everywhere indeed. DNA, starches, proteins, collagin, actin, lignin, melanin etc.

[@NeoMorphUK]

I remember reading about this when I was a kid in the 70’s... Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater.

[@greybone777]

I read that but couldn't remember the title. Good 👍 one.

[@davidgg8318]

Instagram Models: “I’m in danger!”

[@mashable8759]

Oh no 😂

[@youngchap4941]

lol

[@kevinbelho115]

Boyfriend throws plastic easting sludge on instagram influencer in a rare case of domestic violence.

[@pushatsinfrared]

This made my day 😂

[@MolltyChannel]

hahahahahhaha

[@Starphot]

There was a science fiction novel in the late 1970's or 80's that had a bacteria in a London (?) sewer that mutated to eat plastics. This bacteria then mutated further to infect plastics used for more permanent structures causing mayhem as everyday appliances to a Martian lander were failing due to the plastic parts turning to sludge. I don't remember the title or author though.

[@RunnerBeanzDad]

Mutant 59, dramatised in the Doomwatch TV drama series.

[@vyse102]

That's a fascinating premise. I want to read it now.

[@warzone822]

you tripped me up. i was aying sweat some of the trash islands will get cleaned up. to ahh shit, the vast majority of consumer goods and some construction involves plastic.

[@johndonovan7897]

I would have guessed John Wyndam, but he was earlier. See Day of The Triffids. Great book.

[@mikochild2]

@@johndonovan7897 I love day of the triffids. I don't run across too many people who have read or seen it

[@markimarku]

Very nicely presented, thank you!

[@dariuszd6207]

Nie wiem czemu odkryłem ten kanał tak późno. Świetny.

[@renatoacampora6400]

The research is 4 years old, still on the edge of a environmental disaster

[@navigator9905]

yes the world is ending

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

“It’s not a scientific term you Muppet”🤣 That line alone earned my subscription.

[@silimarina.]

and that look on his face

[@HenrijsEglitis]

;D

[@StefanReich]

Definitely not scripted (heh) but funny

[@tonyromano6220]

Dump Chump 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@kilvarough]

Well presented, thank you.

[@RealHIFIHelp]

Great story. Thanks.

[@franco2739]

50 years, wow! that's not even a blink in evolutionary time lines.

[@silimarina.]

well bacteria have a short life span, so in 50 years they had thousands of generations

[@tantofirewater6707]

The evolutionary timeline doesn’t exist. This is what’s called, micro evolution... and is not bound by time rather than generational output. Now if this microorganism were to change from a unicellular to multicellular organism that fed on plastic.... well then we would more than likely have a huge problem on our hands 😂

[@ZoriZM]

@@tantofirewater6707 Would really appreciate it if you don't make threats like that in 2020. You'll never know what could happen.

[@jackbright2125]

@@tantofirewater6707 There's no such thing as micro-evolution or macro-evolution... there's just evolution.

[@hauntified9060]

@@jackbright2125 Micro-evolution is something creationists made up when they didn't have any answer for Noah's Ark.But since they knew some questions that they were getting asked could not have been explained without evolution so they called it micro-evolution

[@blyatiful_niggachu]

Nature: _"Improvise. Adapt. Overcome"_

[@Cl0ckcl0ck]

And governments don't really want the 'problem' to go away because it eliminates their ability to use that problem to grow and raise taxes.

[@OrdinaryJoe12]

this is why humans cant kill the earth as climate alarmists claim.

[@ahmedshinwari]

@@OrdinaryJoe12 Not only that, but also, people think that Earth would care for humans once climate change becomes unbearable.

[@thrissurdiary9583]

One more thing.... Destroy The mother****"

[@TheChasathome]

I have heard this strategy is also employed by the U. S. Marine Corps! Naturally 😁!

[@lordwessex9553]

A few years ago I found that a foam plastic mat left in the garden for a few months had a maggot or caterpillar on it that had chewed a short trail across it.

[@DrBe-zn5fv]

voice... manner... crystal clarity ------ you're the king of kings of explainers

[@xxbigballxxgaming8877]

Humans: We can't control the plastic pollution in our planet. Nature: Fine I'll do it myself!!!

[@lunaflora7542]

Wow that's not the kind of mind set people need.

[@sychomadman]

@@lunaflora7542 r/woosh

[@cardboardethymith3893]

@@lunaflora7542 r/whoooosh

[@starter_4008]

@@lunaflora7542 r/woosh

[@why_i_game]

@r/whooosh LunaFlora

[@Guts-the-Berserker]

*George Carlin called it!* "The Earth will just incorporate plastic into a new paradigm, the Earth + plastic."

[@nathanvangoor4979]

It doesn't really matter that nature started dealing with plastic, he would have been right regardless. If he had replaced 'the Earth' with 'the carbon cycle' he would have 'called it'. That's because 'the Earth + plastic' is just 'the Earth + plastic' and nothing more.

[@plantnerdguy]

Hilarious how he keeps looking over his shoulder in fear his wife will have another micro aggression at him. Also very interesting and informative video, cheers mate

[@64srinidhi]

Excellent presentation ❤️