Reply #8: This is a natually-occuring microbe [View All]

[14thColony]

He didn't engineer it, he simply isolated an already-known plastic-eating microbe. As the article says, they're rare in the wild normally. They'd have to be grown and concentrated to be used to degrade plastic. If you happen to drop your plastic item you want to keep into the fermenting tank for 6-12 weeks, then you'll have a problem. Beyond that, it won't be much of an issue.