Don’t worry, we’ll invent a type of plastic immune to this bacteria and start the whole process anew!

As an aside, ‘plastic eating bacteria’ have been ‘discovered’ countless times over the past several decades.

No idea about that, but your bringing up the issue reminded me of the movie Andromeda Strain…

“Just as he has this insight, the organism mutates into a non-lethal form that degrades synthetic rubber and plastic”

Apparently there’s a TV show based on the same story.