This worm can eat plastic waste.(ये कीड़ा खा सकता है प्लास्टिक कचरा)
This worm can eat plastic waste 25 April 2017 Scientists at Cambridge University say a caterpillar who can eat bee hive can also eat plastic. This can be effective treatment of insect pest control. In the experiment it was discovered that this worm breaks the chemical structure of plastic in the same way as it digests the bee hive. Every year, eight million tons of plastic polyethylene are produced around the world. This plastic is used in shopping bags, food packaging industry. But it takes hundreds of years to completely decay them. Risk of 'gas chamber' on Delhi-NCR? Attitude: Ganga can be saved like this? But this worm named Galleria Melonella can penetrate into plastic bags within hours. University of Cambridge's biochemist Dr. Paolo Bombelli is involved in this research. They say, "This caterpillar is a start, we need to understand how they do it. We hope that a technical solution will be provided to reduce the problem of plastic waste." ये कीड़ा खा स