Been done - don't make me look it up! One story had them eating the
whole world - but what I'd like to see is something that will eat
pollution and excrete solar cells... Fantasy I guess.

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Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
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On Jul 11, 2006, at 8:41 PM, steven c wrote:

>> Let's hope that no one ever does breed effective "'plastic'-loving
>> organisms" to deal with "waste disposal" until someone else has
>> already
>> developed effective "alternate" energy sources. As plastics are made
>> of
>> petrochemicals, any "plastic-loving" organism would likely be very
>> happy
>> gobbling down oil. I pay enough for gas as it is without some critter
>> eating up what is left!
>>
> If no one has written a science-fiction work based on that as a plot,
> somebody ought to!