As more countries and corporations launch campaigns to tackle plastic waste in the natural environment, researchers remain in lockstep aiming to address the problem on both a macro and micro scale.

Plastic has wormed its way into our lives, but maybe a worm can help us eat our way out. A study by Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada, has found that waxworms, which normally live in beehives and ...

Researchers are working on manipulating the digestive systems of wax worms to create a scalable way of disposing of plastic. In 2017, European researchers discovered a potential solution. The larvae ...

Our planet has a plastic problem; plastic particles can be found in nearly every part of our environment, in organisms, even in the human body. Recycling plastic is not easy, for many reasons, and ...

People around the world use more than a trillion plastic bags every year. They're made of a notoriously resilient kind of plastic called polyethylene that can take decades to break down. But the ...

There's been a lot of buzz lately about plastics and worms, with much of the recent news generated by a report out of Australia on a study showing that a "superworm" could eat and digest expanded ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Two substances in the saliva of wax worms - moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs - readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers said on ...

A beekeeper was cleaning wax worms out of her hives, and putting them in a plastic bag when she realized the worms were chewing through the plastic and chemically breaking it down. Good morning. I'm A ...

“Could Nature Rid the Planet of Its Plastic Waste?” Over the past few years, worms, bacteria, and enzymes that chow down on polymers have inspired headlines somewhat like this one. The idea that ...

Humans produce more than 300 million metric tons of plastic every year. Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million metric tons pollute the oceans. So far there is no sustainable ...