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Let the Bugs Eat Your Plastic

We Have Concerns

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Polyethylene Is a Waste of Plastic, Right?

Plastic bags are made of a type of plastic called polyethylene. The only recycling that we do with polyethylene today uses mechanical processes and creates essentially lower value products. Now, if we could use insects and the insects that they were using here, this is Dr. Federica Bertaccini at the Biological Research Center in Madrid,. They said my beehives were plagues with wax worms.

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