Plastic: An Acquired Taste, Even If You're an Aromatic Polyesterase

At the rate plastic bottles and the like are entering the world’s oceans, beachgoers may need to start wading long before they reach the water’s edge. And the plastic tide has yet to turn, despite the development of mechanical and chemical recycling technologies. Unless a new kind of recycling technology is developed, natural scenery may disappear beneath waves of human-made polymers, and wildlife may be left bobbing in civilization’s synthetic wake.Curiously, the best kind of