Mealworms Love Eating Styrofoam! Breakthrough Discovery Best In 10 Years

Who would have thought that the container used to transport your take-out food could be a meal itself?

For the right consumer, it is.

Mealworms, scientists have just learned, will indeed eat styrofoam, which could spell glorious progress in the fight to eliminate plastic waste.

Researchers at Beihang University in China and Stanford University in California arrived at this conclusion after putting the worms—larvae of the common American beetle—on a diet of nothing but styrofoam. Not only dud the bugs digest the plastic into biodegradable compounds, but they were just as healthy afterwards as worms that ate their normal diet.

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