How Plastic Eating Fungi will Change our World forever
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2024
- In this video we go deep into the many fungi that have been discovered recently that can solely survive on plastics! It's incredible to see nature adapt so fast to our plastic pollution problem and it shows that teaming with plastic eating fungi (and others) can help us create a better world for every being living here🙌 Imagine a world where rivers run clean, and our Earth is free from microplastics contamination. This world is possible with the help of our fungal allies. Discover how these amazing organisms are turning the tide against plastic pollution and chomping down on one of the most significant issues facing Earth today.
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So cool. I sometimes think that anyone who isn’t obsessed with fungi just doesn’t know enough about them.
That's why we set out to do what we do!
@@FungiacademyI won’t be excited until you tell me more about the Fungi rather than all the ‘tons of food’ it has to eat. How quickly do they consume the plastics? What waste do they leave behind? What types of plastic do they eat? How much energy does it take to collect and preprocess waste to a form consumable by the fungus? Does the burning of off gases(methane?) actually generate net positive/profitable energy? ...?
Absolutely. Keep spreading the word... and spores!
@@life42theuniverse why dont you make that video
That's some good news we were waiting for, hope that people put in in industrial scale soon. Thanks for the content 🙏
We got this🙌
Its not good news if it releases carbon dioxide or methane to the environment
Agar plate: “wait what?! Timeout.”
That's what I was thinking too lolz 😂 . Gotta get some more funding for glass plates. A stack of those things needs a government grant to afford.😂
@@ZombieSnax42069 right??😝
With this fungi and the amount of plastic around.
This guy will eat up the plastic (Nice!) but it made me wonder, is the waste product co2?
In the end I assume it will get there in one way or another since the fungi break the plastic down.
But it made me wonder if a solution in this situation might be making silos/tanks for the fungi to break it down and to capture the co2 released. If this guy is free roaming and eating away now then it would just add more co2 to the air and ocean, right?
Very good point ☝🏼 would be easy for each city to set up its own plastic munching vats and generate some small income from the waste product 😊
I was wondering what the mushrooms' residue would consist of.
Can we eat plastic eating shrooms?
Plastic eating fungi was what got me watching, so the bylines got me, then all that red hair
I wonder if there would be enough PP plastics close enough together in a landfill that you could turn the entire thing into a giant substrate? That would be Freaking Epic !
Oyster mushrooms are also good at devouring many things and possibly petroleum from Paul stamen’s reports cardboard and cigarette butts definitely get eaten by oyster .
Oyster mushrooms are the best!
uh, alright. where can i buy some of this fungi, A: and simply throw it in my recycling so it goes to the recycling place or B: so i can throw a sample into a landfill let it proliferate?
Wonderful!!
Many thanks!
Having grown up at the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, this news really instills hope! Go Fungi!!! You rock the planet in the best possible way ; )
Awwww plastic hasnt been around long enough for organisms do evolve to eat it. As time goes on who knows what will be eating plastic
Funny how they want to ban farmers in holland about cow farts here, but burning plastic like a maniac lmao
It did 300,000,000 years ago when it evolved and started eating the plastics in dead plants and returning the CO2 back to our atmosphere, saving all life from starvation! A lot of our much needed carbon is still trapped deep beneath the ground, so it will be millions of years before we get back up to a safe atmospheric CO2 level!
Is there any other use for the fungi? Feed stock or packing foam
So much of what used to be metal or wood are now plastic. I just hate it.
Don't forget glass :P glass coke bottles or milk bottles ect.
I just found you and love this! 😍 Out of curiosity, have you done any videos on mushroom allergies? I've developed one... but miss eating mushrooms. I'm not sure if it's all mushrooms or just specific species. I'm honestly afraid to experiment because of the pain the Portobellos cause... I'd love to find more info on mushrooms and allergies! (Liked & Subscribed!)
Good stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It's really great but just imagine a world where we actually force the chemical companies in the plastic manufacturers to spend the money to make plastics that break down instead of getting to dump all of their experiments on the public and making us clean it up
The irony is, do you want biodegradable plastics that break down, releasing co2, or do you want plastics that lock in the carbon for good, ie what we have? Without exposure to sunlight in the ocean, food packaging use, and cloth use, there wouldn't be microplastics affecting health either. So I think we may be looking at all the wrong questions. Don't throw hands in the air we can't burn it or degrade it, well damn collect it at least and store it in a contained environment. A landfill is not a contained environment. Landfills should only contain non plastics, everything else that's degradable, don't mix plastics with the environment after its use. There is a collection requirement for used oil too, you don't just pollute the landscape. Classify plastics as a pollutant with collection requirement.
Does anyone have a link to the information or programs doing the testing ?
You missed the important questions : do the fungi degrade plastic molecules ? Or do fungi cut them down to micro-plastics that are integrated into soils and water lately ??
I wanted to get into this a few years ago but didnt have the resources to start.
A Video of Hope
Lets breed super fungi to eat all plastic everywhere and reset the world!!!
i want to know if its just breaking down the plastics into micro plastics or if the plastics are being converted int something totally different that's even worse for us to be around
It's the entire plastic the fungi breaks down, which means that it will attack every part of the plastic item, growing over the whole thing, infiltrating every exposed surface, breaking it down into it's constituent atoms or molecules.
The fungi won't merely act like a shredder, turning it into smaller pieces of plastic - unless the process is interrupted, the plastic cleansed of the fungi, and the remaining matter dumped in the environment. But I should think scientists plan to commit to a complete process, otherwise what is the point?
My only issue is - we have been hearing about plastic eating fungi, bugs and bacteria for years now (before the pandemic, I'm sure of it). Yet, it's always in the research phase, always in the process of finding a better version, faster version.
When is any of it ever going to be put into action?
Do we really have much more time to wait?
And is the active fungi/bacteria going to be exploited as a big money generating business (as usual), governments forcing local authorities to pay big bucks for spawn for dealing with their own plastic waste, and poorer countries unable to afford it at all.
We need this process to be generally available, to all countries (regardless of their political inclinations and disregarding all other sanctions that may apply), and the cost must not be exploitative. That's just immoral. We're talking of saving a planet here, not making a big business even bigger.
We geard about this several times but where is the application? Nobody mentions this during the ongoing #plastictreaty negotiations
I would like to learn how to breed my own so that I can take care of my own plastic recycling and teach others..
I wouldn't worry about it.
Now our plastic items will get moldy?
Thank you for informing us that there has been the discovery of a Fungi that breaks down plastic,
But what happens to the hydro carbons and carbon dioxide after the Fungi has “Digested? It”..?
Lets create a mushroom world instead of the plastic wastelands.
It's happening!
@@Fungiacademy IM WAITING
We have to be careful we don’t create something that also eats us alive, but yeah
@@RedSkeletone The last of us.
Hey, is there a way we are able to collect a culture from somewhere?
Imagine one day you notice something really odd with the interior of your car, you don't pay much attention.. Then another day you are typing away on your computer and your finger goes through the keycap... then your keyboard splits in half. A week later your car door panel breaks in half and your other home appliances are now unusable and as these fungi and bacteria are shortening the lifespan of your personal possessions.
Is this a point of discussion in this debate?
Wow. So let’s fear it instead of trying?
Not sure how valid of a point it is though. You could make objects from other materials than plastic. Your keyboard and keycaps could be metal or other things and still be easier to recycle/deal with than plastic is now. Even if plastic it's not like it's just poof gone "Magic!". I bet you use cardboard or even paper? Those things can be broken down but is still used. Is it better to have broken phones, tv's, car bumpers ect. just piling up everywhere and being toxic? Plastic is for the most part just cheaper to use. I'd say not everything needs a shell to last a million years even though it's internals where done for after 5-20 years. Many metal parts needs changing because it's worn down. Think overall it would still be ok if some plastic parts would also need to be changed out.
@@sleepydoppy8516 how about scientifically testing to make sure this works as intended and doesn't cause catastrophic results.
The idea of one of the zombie fungi species deciding humanity looks like manageable, tasty, abundant prey?? 😵💫🤢😣 It's beyond nightmarish.
We absolutely don't want to get the attention of the wrong species.
We need to drastically reduce the production and use of plastic. Plastic production is fossil fuel derived and therefore emits vast quantities of greenhouse gas at every step from cradle to grave.
Plastics also contain thousands of complex chemicals including forever chemicals.
We need true bioplastics which don't become a toxic legacy and to drastically reduce our consumption.
A hard problem to solve but we can do it.
A French Company has isolated the enzymes to do this: ua-cam.com/video/AEqt8hLy0E8/v-deo.htmlsi=vOn73_pSntIwN3sh. Have you or others used the bacteria and fungi to eat the plastic? What is their waste product like from plastic consumption? Can it be used to make useful products or does it produce a lot of CO2?
It probably produces a lot of co2 but in practice it should turn into good compost
Would love to come work with you guys.
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Will it break down polyurethane?
It's pretty cool but I haven't heard any updates on this in a long time. Like is there a problem with doing this? If they've proved that it works (I've heard of about 20 bacteria that will do this as well) then are we feeding these things plastic at a massive level? Are we breeding more of these things? Where are we with it?
with current technological advancement it is not impossible for human able create, explore, learn and teach without worry where to sleep what to eat, fear of war... unless we all choose otherwise.
We have to make sure it doesn’t get out
probably the biggest hurdle to overcome with this is figuring out how to not let the plastics enter the carbon cycle. once the plastic is fully metabolized it will either be released as CO2 or stored as biomass, which when the organism dies, will also be released as CO2
You have been brainwashed, if you try to stop the carbon cycle then everything will die, food producing plants can't function under 150ppm of Co2, our current atmosphric Co2 is around 450ppm, during the last ice age 12,000 yr ago it dropped bellow 200ppm. The atmosphric Co2 has been higher than 7,000 ppm as well as being up to 10 degrees warmer and every time it leads to *more* biomass and life and every time it swings back into an ice age, this heating and cooling cycle has happened 100,000 times over and if carbon could destroy that cycle it would have happened millions of billions of years ago and never returned to normal.
LIFE IS MADE FROM CARBON GOD DAMMIT.
@@crazyjay6331 uhm what?
Not sure where you where going with this one. But you do see the point that right now all that plastic with it's carbon is just sitting around in landfils, ocean ect. So it's not in the carbon cycle. It needs to be broken down first for it to be used in other ways.
@@crazyjay6331 bro huh?
@@martinhowden the point is it shouldn't enter the carbon cycle. just about the only positive thing for the enviornment that plastics have going for them is they have sequestered the carbon from entering the atmosphere that would have otherwise been burnt as fuel.
Yes, if that fungus escapes no more plastics......
if everyone on earth eats just 1 (one) ton of plastic, then we’ll all be living in a plastic free world! :D
Ego realised, ego designed, ego driven, ego justified = absolutely useless in reality!
If I were the military, I would explore research on fungi or bacteria capable of consuming plastic, potentially weaponizing them to target the plastics of unsuspecting enemy countries. If successful, this could have devastating effects on the economy of the enemy.
This is why we can't have nice things.
youre a dreamer thats for sure. you cant make or control the conditions they need to be in, you cant replicate enough of it, and it plain would not work in time.
A thought. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING eventually gets loose in our environment. What will this eventually start eating...the plastic in house window facings, car parts, perhaps body part prosthetics; what are artificial heart valves made of....be careful.
It is the natural cycle of life. im sure we can engineer another type of plastic that will be resilient
Nice upload
Thanks mate!
The word needs some more indiscriminate mold.
wild. a different species of engyodontium turns the spiders in my basement into fuzzy ghost statues,
Maybe your spiders are made out of plastic?👀
@@Fungiacademy it's pretty weird down there, so i'll say it's possible.
Hope this does not become an excuse for corporations to continue to use and produce plastic,though,
"because it can now be broken down".....
Reducing is still our best approach for sure. This video is intended to show that there is a solution to all the plastic that has already been created!
No way this is going to scale. Almost 500 million metric tons per year and the industry is bragging to investors that it will triple by 2050. We have to stop plastic production, this just gives the public hope that business can continue as usual.
I mean if this actually works we'd have to replace plastic pipes etc anyway bc it's no longer as durable as was once believed 😅
@@rongike keep dreaming
@@Fish-cj4ub you should try it, it's more fun than being bitter and having no hope 🥰
@@rongike its not hope. its whats called a pipe dream. and they are brainwashing techniques designed to keep you calm and divert your resources and attention
Maybe we could engineer these fungi to be salt water resistant (or even salt water enjoyers) and just let them do their work in the wild.
Honestly with the advancements of CRISPR and other genemanipulation technology it would be entirely possible
they never speak of the dangers of fungus, there our some that you can't kill that literally consume life, human and plant
Like, which one specifically? There are tons of bacteria that can do that, tons of plants, i can keep going for a while. You know there are estimated to be 10 million species of Fungi? You got to be more specific
@@Fungiacademy can't recall the specific names but ive tended to different species of grasses and trees when I was younger, using chemicals that were very toxic and powerful antifungals and observed the fungus develope resistance, seen similar things happen to the human body.
@@Fungiacademy don't get me wrong I love fungus, just got done picking some corals and morels. I'm sure the folks developing these gmo fungus have a handle on it. I think Paul Staments could save the world with fungus
@@Fungiacademy Cryptococcus gattii fungi has evolved in oregon, this particular strain seems to able to infect healthy human and has an approximatively 25% death rate since 2005 (only 21 known infections so far).
It's pretty rare but this tropical mushroom can be found in Vancouver nowadays.
What about refusing to buy over rapped plastic product, individual small size plastis container etc instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you...
Reducing is always the best solution!
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The massive source of Uv lol
Don't forget the heat!
Vast cultural change needed, maybe greedy, angry, stupid egos can be eaten by mushrooms as well?
🌎 = 🙈
I tell you what will hapen, the Industrie will develop some adative to the Platic that will kill the Fungi.
Second thought, it will be even more unhealthy theb bevor
Recycling plastic doesn’t make sense financially or materially
your karmic mycelium radiates and breaks down sceptics.
Haha hopefully one day
This is the future or there is no future at least for us. Mushroom will thrive anyway as always🍄
Fungi have been there way before us and will be there long after us🍄
if they take over the planet does that mean we'll have to replace everything made of plastic? 😁
So plastic instead of storing carbon will release more carbon in a climate catastrophe ???
.. change your world into the spiritual of you treat it like shrooms.
This idea has been around for a decade. If it worked there would be a prototype by now. I imagine it grows too slowly and would have to replace other fungi in the environment to work at scale. Sounds like a great idea if you could just add the fungi to the flora and it would seek out plastic, but most likely that is not its preferred substrate, just like rock weathering by fungi takes millennia. Best to collect the plastic I think, melt it into granules and pump it back to where it came from, empty oil deposits. Without sun and minimized surface exposure it should be a good carbon sink.
Also we can easily get around the idea that by storing plastic indefinitely we are creating accumulating pollutant. Oil is earth's natural pollutant (and carbon sink). That area of earth is permanently polluted with oil. It's just deep underground and out of sight, but it's there. With plastics, we don't create more pollutant than was already there, if we similarly push it back underground, ideally same place where the pollution already exists (of oil). Like oil, plastic is an ideally dense carbon sink, and trying to get rid of co2, two flies with one stone. Only difference to the oil already in the ground is, with plastic we made something useful with it for a while, if we put it back earth is no worse off. Clearly we don't want to burn oil anymore, so from that perspective, plastic is an environmentally friendly way of using oil 😅
Ya'll need a better mic!
We eating plastic so it will eat us
Still not drinking coffee? I'm sure I can make up for you.
I did a 100 day no cofffee challenge, im back to it now haha
@@Fungiacademy It's at least 50% of my fluid intake. Usually followed by a bit of cannabis... and then more coffee.
It ate my tupperware and:|
Try again haha
First off-how to you kill this fungus? Will it eat humans since humans now have micro plastics in their bodies & blood? The plastics are in the air, water, soil, will it eat the very things humans need for survival? And lastly.. what about Prosthetics? Plastic artificial limbs, internal lap bands, pace makers, etc? It doesn’t sound very safe.. but getting off plastics does sound like it needed done decades ago! As well as stop drilling for water!
Other than these concerns.. sounds great 🤘🏼
nonsense. when the fungi dies then the stored plastic is released back into the environment.
Whats your source for this?
normalize your audio!
Another person with limited intelctual capability promoting greenwashing. Shame on you. 👎👎👎👎
Avoiding speaking about subjects you have limited understanding limit the damge you can make.
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...till your car false apart. Fungus Among Us: UV has been breaking down plastic since 1960's... don't know if FunGuys were involved in Nature. Litter Bug:🪲