Eating plastic ... See Also The worms were fed either plastic polystyrene alone, bran (a nutrient-dense food) alone, or a combination of both. Researchers found that the worms on a polystyrene ...

Bertocchini placed the worms in a typical plastic shopping bag. Soon she discovered the bag riddled with holes. Alongside University of Cambridge biochemists colleagues Paolo Bombelli and ...

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She later realised that her bowl had more worms in it, too. She says that she often switches off the light as she's watching TV and eating her food. Thus, she wouldn't even know what she was ...

Federica Bertocchini at the Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research and her colleagues have isolated unique, plastic-eating enzymes from the saliva of wax worms. These biological agents ...

Every year, the world makes 21 million tons of polystyrene, the kind of plastic found in styrofoam ... Wu told Tech Insider by email that the worms eating even make an audible "crunching sound." ...