mardi 29 septembre 2015

Hungry mealworms could keep Styrofoam out of landfills

Some of the Stanford mealworms, chowing down on polystyrene

If you've ever kept mealworms as food for a pet reptile or frog, then you probably fed them fruits or vegetables. What you likely didn't know, however, was that the insects can also survive quite nicely on a diet of Styrofoam. With that in mind, scientists at Stanford University have now determined that mealworms can break the difficult-to-recycle plastic foam down into a biodegradable waste product.

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