I’m a fan of the cautionary principle. I’m not a fan of fear-mongering. Reminds me of the people who protested the LHC because they thought movie physics were real. Plastic waste is a certain and immediate threat to the global ecosystem, not some imaginary danger based on wild misconceptions about the capabilities of bioprocessing.
By all means, oversight an ethics boards to the max. But talking about bacteria that’s going to eat all the plastic in the world is rank science fantasy.
