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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- one8년 이상but the worms don't eat the whole bag they only only make holes then leave.
- person8년 이상you dont know what a worm is
- question8년 이상Why are the wax worms able to digest plastic?
- person8년 이상Can These Plastic-Eating Wax Worms Help Reduce Our Trash?
- person8년 이상eww
- person8년 이상cool!
- bob bear billy8년 이상This site is so helpful! I'm doing a news channel at my school and have to write a news story.This website made it SO much easier.THANK YOU SO MUCH! :)
- vaillancourt CN8년 이상how did they survive be for human . because we created plastic
- TROY8년 이상THEY COULD GET SICK FOR EATING BAGS BUT THEY HAD TO GET OUT SO
- deathkillerfoxy8년 이상omg