Like a petulant child, I'll put it this way:
"Fine, I'll do it. But I'm not gonna be happy about it!"
That sums up my feelings when I read about "biological recycling" and how it can potentially help save some of our environmental challenges. It usually relies on bugs or worms or other gross, creepy-crawly things to eat away at plastics. And of course we have A LOT of plastics laying around our landfills so that's going to require A LOT of creepy-crawly little things.
But that's just me. Let's do what we have to do to make a dent in our plastics problem. Let the little buggers recycle away.
Biological recycling could put a dent in the plastics problem. It involves using enzymes — the workhorses of biochemistry that speed up reactions — to break down plastic polymers into their subunits, called monomers. These monomers can then be used to make new plastics. “The nice thing about enzymes is you get the building blocks back,” says McGeehan. “That’s potentially an infinite process, so it’s really attractive.”
https://www.inverse.com/science/the-living-things-that-feast-on-plastic
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