Can These Plastic-Eating Wax Worms Help Reduce Our Trash?
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Though plastic shopping bags are incredibly cheap and useful, their disposal causes widespread pollution. That's because the non-biodegradable polyethylene takes centuries to decompose and is also detrimental to wildlife who often mistake the colorful debris for food. Now, we may have an unlikely ally to help clean up our trash – a small wax worm bred primarily for use as premium fish bait.
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adroit_avimimus3년 이상That would be very helpful! But what if someone mistakes it for fish bait? That would be bad because there is plastic in the worm and now it's in the fish and it's contaminated!
bsc4년 이상Wow!- momo6년 이하that's very helpful
- ha약 6년super helpful! I used this for my current event!
- 8 yrs young약 6년Plastic is very harmful to the environment. It causes air and land pollution and marine animals can die from it. Microplastics are even worse, you can't even see them with your own eyes.
- WySaFerg6년 이상What about no plastic? And no worms?
muffin2468time3년 이상If we had no worms we wouldn't be able to have healthy plants
- HUNTLEY LA BEST6년 이상BUT WORMS ARE BAD AND PLASTICK BAGS ARE TO
kalena5년 이상If the worms are eating the plastic then pollution will stop
- WySaFerg6년 이상What about no more plastic and no worms???
- Eleanor6년 이상That's wack because worms are nasty but they help the earth!
- ???6년 이상well, if they DO use these to get rid of plastic, what happens when there is little or no plastic? i know. we have millions of worms everywhere.