Comments for A Safe Way to Dispose of BPA-Containing Plastics at http://www.ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.ecogeek.org Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:18:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.ecogeek.org/preventing-pollution/3060-a-safe-way-to-dispose-of-bpa-containing-plastics#comment-35997 I got excited about this news as I'm trying to figure out what to do with my canned tomatoes but my excitement was short lived as I found out that this story was adapted from the American Chemical Society. Of course, they are going to say, they found an eco-friendly way to dispose BPA to cover their behind. I wouldn't trust any studies funded or produced by any organization having to do with chemical society or plastic society. Let an independent researcher come up with a solution. - Karen Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:14:34 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/preventing-pollution/3060-a-safe-way-to-dispose-of-bpa-containing-plastics#comment-35911 This should not be an excuse to keep poisoning our world. BPA, a powerful endocrine disruptor linked to cancer, infertility, diabetes and heart diseas is already in 93% or americans and in 100% or newborn children! Learn more: http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org/tag/bpa/ - Manuel Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:51:45 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/preventing-pollution/3060-a-safe-way-to-dispose-of-bpa-containing-plastics#comment-35864 its ok! life existed before plastic. If necessary, we can do it again :D. My life might be better if I couldn't buy plastic with plastic. last I checked mutant bacteria didn;t plan melicious attacks. Sure people could... but they do that with or without the evil plastic eating bacteria. by the way, did the study look into a control group of the plastic itself just exposed to the light? they tried just fungus but not just light... what made them want to first bath it in light and heat? - sarah Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:58:17 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/preventing-pollution/3060-a-safe-way-to-dispose-of-bpa-containing-plastics#comment-35821 Congratulations to the good scientists for breeding up a new fungus to eat the bad plastic. But..... I wonder, have these people really found a way of disposing of BPA or have they succeeded in shifting it somewhere else? The fungi are not going to sit around metabolizing BPA all day without undergoing some changes. They are going to evolve and mutate as result of this new chemical driver. These unwitting 'scientists' could be triggering the development of a dangerous mutant strain of fungus which could cripple the world's plastics and petrochemical industries. We have to look at the risks and benefits of applied science. In this case we have the benefit of an organism which can eat BPA plastics. On the risk side, this organism could escape and become established in super colonies inside plastics factories and petro chemical plants. What would happen to world trade and commerce if were not able to manufacture plastics? You can see that the risk is simply to great. We must apply the precautionary algorithm and find another solution to the BPA problem. - Isaac Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:03:28 +0100