🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoPlastic-eating insect discovered in Kenyatheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1311arrow-down12cross-posted to: jingszo@lemmy.world
arrow-up1309arrow-down1external-linkPlastic-eating insect discovered in Kenyatheconversation.com🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square37linkfedilinkcross-posted to: jingszo@lemmy.world
minus-squareHomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32arrow-down1·1 year ago Instead of releasing a huge number of these insects into trash sites (which isn’t practical) Try it anyway!
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 year agoHmmm… How to create an invasive species in 3…2…1…
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 year agoFinally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoThey’re mealworms of a species already found on numerous continents, I think it’ll be fine.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoGoodbye built human world !
minus-squareMonument@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year 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!
minus-squarepageflight@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoBack to building with stone, metal, and wood.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAs if housing wasn’t expensive enough already.
Try it anyway!
Hmmm… How to create an invasive species in 3…2…1…
Finally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester
They’re mealworms of a species already found on numerous continents, I think it’ll be fine.
Goodbye built human world !
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!
Back to building with stone, metal, and wood.
As if housing wasn’t expensive enough already.