00:00Are there any plants around here?
00:02I thought I'd go and take a look.
00:04I don't know.
00:05I'll go and have a look.
00:06I think it's a little bit...
00:07I don't know.
00:08Well, it's a nice spot, isn't it?
00:09I think so.
00:10I don't know.
00:11I don't know.
00:12I don't know.
00:13I don't know.
00:14This is a cool spot.
00:15We'll get a cardboard like this.
00:16The whole thing.
00:17It's hard to get back to the tablet.
00:18I mean, the trees were all so cool here.
00:19And then there's a camera.
00:20It's a bit of a pressure.
00:21Here you can get a picture.
00:22I don't know, I don't know.
00:23Yes, I'm curious.
00:24I don't know.
00:25I don't know.
00:56Yes, it's really beautiful.
01:04Yes, yes, that's the special thing about it.
01:26The most surprising finding of our work, which is also different from other studies,
01:52is that our fungi could exclusively grow on some of the synthetic polymers and even form biomass.
02:01This is exceptional because it clearly demonstrates that these fungi are quite capable in degrading the synthetic polymers.
02:52Yes, exactly, they can grow.
03:07That it could work.
03:10Yes, I found that by the end of three months some fungi could grow and produce normal mycelia.
03:20It's really surprising because I thought from the first moment that it takes years, as the other literature said.
03:31But for our conditions, I saw that it takes only three months and I could take some of mycelia.
03:42For the country to grow like this?
03:45Yes, first of all according to the type of fungi.
04:00No, I don't think this would be a final solution because adding more of something into an environment would cause additional problems and may destroy the entire ecosystem.
04:30First of all, I would suggest to produce less plastics and release less plastic into the environment.
04:40And secondly, you could do it in a more industrial way in reactors where you can actually manipulate the environmental conditions like temperature, nutrient content to optimize the degradation of these synthetic polymers by microorganisms.
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