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Plastics are everywhere, and we
can’t seem to get rid of them. Could a worm be the solution we need? Does
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“Most plastic is manufactured
from petroleum the end product of a few million years of natural decay of
once-living organisms. Petroleum's main components come from lipids that were
first assembled long ago in those organisms' cells.” Plastic-eating worms may
offer solution to mounting waste, researchers discover http://phys.org/news/2015-09-plastic-...
“Consider the plastic foam cup.
Every year, Americans throw away 2.5 billion of them. And yet, that waste is
just a fraction of the 33 million tons of plastic Americans discard every year.
Less than 10 percent of that total gets recycled, and the remainder presents
challenges ranging from water contamination to animal poisoning.”
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