Plastic Eaters: Be careful what you wish for

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Listening to a scientist talking about ways of dissolving plastic to clean up the planet, I was reminded of this novel based on an old BBC TV series

Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis (1971)

Pedler and Davis This is a hugely enjoyable, trashy but compelling sci-fi shocker, written by the scriptwriting duo of Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis. The story of the their writing partnership is inte…

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Not mentioned here but the missing sub HMS Triton was armed with Poseidon missiles

 

[publiusr]

Someone invented a bug that can eat nails quickly

 

[Archibald]

Soleyant green is plastic ! (well, at least that would make it a little more morally acceptable than being... dead people flesh.) LMAO

 

[shin_getter]

Plastic traps carbon~ Dissolving plastic means carbon release and DDOOOOOMMMMOMOMOM! Only a world killer would propose dissolving plastic.

 

[Hood]

Polythene Pam was named after Beatles fan Polythene Pat who liked a nice snack of polythene. Nothing new under the sun.