Clever way to reduce the pain of plastic waste

On a related note, and being the incurable nerd that I am, I was fascinated to read online about a process whereby waste plastic is being “converted” to produce paracetamol.

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Yeah, I thought the same.

The science is beyond me, but the claim is that a common bacterium (E. coli) can be genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday painkiller.