This Tiny Caterpillar Could Help Solve the World's Plastic Crisis

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By Lorraine ChowApr 25, 2017, 12:27 pm76 pts
A research team discovered that the caterpillars of the greater wax moth—considered a pest in Europe because it eats the beeswax from honeycombs—also has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene , the same material used in whale-choking , landfill-clogging plastic shopping bags. Incredibly, this discovery was…

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