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Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya (theconversation.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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[–] HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Instead of releasing a huge number of these insects into trash sites (which isn’t practical)

Try it anyway!

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hmmm...... How to create an invasive species in 3...2....1...

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 25 points 2 years ago

Finally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

They're mealworms of a species already found on numerous continents, I think it'll be fine.

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Goodbye built human world !

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago

About time!

The kind of funny thing is that if this happened for real, the next big plastic product would just be pesticide impregnated plastics. And then we’d have pesticide microplastics everywhere!

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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Back to building with stone, metal, and wood.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

As if housing wasn't expensive enough already.

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