Fifty years — that’s about how long it takes a plastic foam cup to decompose naturally in the environment.
New research though suggests that a tiny animal could do the work much faster, providing the first evidence that bacteria inside mealworm guts can degrade plastic materials.
‘This Is a Shock’: Scientists Put Mealworms on a Diet of Styrofoam and Were Surprised to See What Happened | TheBlaze.com
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