Presumably dumping millions of wax worms in landfill sites is a bad idea, but perhaps some synthetic version of their plastic-digesting enzyme ?
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These worms may solve the plastic waste problem!
Paolo Bombelli and Chris Howe from the University of Cambridge, and Federica Bertocchini from CSIC discovered that wax worms (Galleria mellonella) are capable of degrading plastic.
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