Joker@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoPlastic-eating insect discovered in Kenyatheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1309arrow-down11
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minus-squareHomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32arrow-down1·7 days ago Instead of releasing a huge number of these insects into trash sites (which isn’t practical) Try it anyway!
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·7 days agoHmmm… How to create an invasive species in 3…2…1…
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 days agoThey’re mealworms of a species already found on numerous continents, I think it’ll be fine.
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·7 days agoFinally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·7 days agoGoodbye built human world !
minus-squarepageflight@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoBack to building with stone, metal, and wood.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoAs if housing wasn’t expensive enough already.
minus-squareMonument@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·7 days agoAbout 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!
Try it anyway!
Hmmm… How to create an invasive species in 3…2…1…
They’re mealworms of a species already found on numerous continents, I think it’ll be fine.
Finally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester
Goodbye built human world !
Back to building with stone, metal, and wood.
As if housing wasn’t expensive enough already.
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!