Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic 
As programmers we are always attuned to thinking about the edge cases and endgames, so I wonder:<p>Would be possible that such a fungus proliferated into a sort of "termite for plastic", feeding on plastic piping (in houses or cars maybe) and the like.<p>Of course house owners already deal with mold so I suppose this would just be another one.<p>The article suggests introducing it into landfills to eat the plastic. Kudzu was introduced to America to control soil erosion. The invasive vine now spreads at a rate of 150,000 acres a year, so it certainly accomplished goal A.