Plastic Eating Caterpillar could eat through waste
Researchers at Cambridge university made a discovery that the larvae of the honey comb moth which can chew through honey comb in bee hives can also degrade and eat plastic. Research shows that the larvae can break down the chemical bonds of plastic in a similar way to honeycomb. Generally it takes hundreds of years for plastic polythene to break down, these caterpillars can make a hole in a plastic bag in under an hour.
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