Scientists Discover Plastic-Eating Worms That Digest Styrofoam

ExtremeTech
3 min readJun 13, 2022

by Adrianna Nine

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Humanity has left its mark on the Earth, from cities of steel to mountains of styrofoam. The latter is proving to be a problem, as many of the synthetic materials we produce don’t degrade in anything approaching a human timescale…

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