jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) (05/03/91)
I read a few days ago that an attempt is being made to genetically engineer a bacterium that eats the body panels of the Trabant, which are some kind of plastic/pressboard laminate kinda stuff that is apparently neither biodegradable nor recyclable. (The Trabant, of course, is the dreadful East German econo-car that is literally getting hard to give away now that superior Western products are available.) Anybody know the details? --Joe "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"