🐛 Why don't we use plastic-eating worms?
How can we get rid of all the plastic we produce? Are wax worms the best option? Are there other alternatives?
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TO LEARN MORE:
Mercedes Spínola-Amilibia et al., Plastic degradation by insect hexamerins: Near-atomic resolution structures of the polyethylene-degrading proteins from the wax worm saliva. Sci. Adv.9,eadi6813(2023).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adi6813 https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1...
Bertocchini, F., & Arias, C. F. (2023). Why have we not yet solved the challenge of plastic degradation by biological means?. PLoS Biology, 21(3), e3001979. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology...
The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades, new report finds • The plastic industry knowingly pushed recy...
The Fraud of Plastic Recycling. How Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis. https://climateintegrity.org/uploads/...
No plastic in nature: Assessing plastic ingestion from nature to people
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