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EXTRACTIVE DELUSIONS

We live today in environments polluted with plastics. And increasingly, public discourse is polluted with them too: from the image of a drinking straw being pulled from a turtle’s nose to reports of microplastics mingling inside all living beings.

Amid this awareness of their destructive impact, significant resources are now being invested in researching alternatives. In particular, researchers have been excited by the capacity of fungi to not

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