These worms can eat plastic. Not only that, but they can digest it too! In the fifth and final episode of ‘Planet Fix’, we speak to the scientists exploring how nature is fighting back against one of the world’s biggest polluters.
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The only way to know if it is indeed being digested in a healthy way is to study the adult insects after they metamorphed into the moths, and make sure there is no deformity or abnormal development. It needs further study. How many times have humans thought something we tweaked would work out in the animal kingdom, only to have it supremely fail and alter an entire ecosystem.
Enter the plastic vanilla ice cream.
"life always finds a way"
Giving worms cancer to save humanity 😅
Oh, they finally discovered the species that will replace humanity.
How long until there's a story about how these worms consumed someone's house like the nematodes in SpongeBob?
I am sure I am not the first to comment this but how in this world such a serious program can referent to these as worms without at the very least explain the fact that they are caterpillars…. what a shame!!!
other than that, thanks for fantastic information
as you see, NATURE itself can save this planet.we don't need radical activists
We MUST stop these sick minds called "science doctors" to play with our health!!
These worms never run out of food.
great!!!
I'm going to be endlessly entertained if these worms end up destroying whole world.
nightmare scenario
this gets out of control gets out into wild then your home
look around you …suddenly nothing can be made of plastic….
Plastic is bio degradeable.
Nature is so incredible! I’ve seen oyster mushrooms digest plastic, cardboard, pretty much anything if you get an aggressive enough strain. I work on a culinary mushroom farm.
I wonder if putting large amounts of plastic in an extreme oxygen chamber partially powered by plants would be another possible solution if oxygen can break it down
I'm ok with plastic vanilla if the scientist will eat for 5-10y and show no side effects 🙂
does it eat uranium? human need a worm for eating that. but eat plastic is great too
As someone who has Scoleciphobia I'm very conflicted lol
They evolve and eat humans tooo😂
Making plastic biodegradable kind of ruins the point of plastic though…
So this is where the developers of STRAY got their premise from. XD