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minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 day agoI was both mistaken and correct. I say mistaken because here’s what I was thinking: mealworms have been known to metabolize polystyrene for a long time: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5b02661 I say correct because there is also active work on tailoring BSF larvae to do the same thing: https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-023-01649-0
I was both mistaken and correct.
I say mistaken because here’s what I was thinking: mealworms have been known to metabolize polystyrene for a long time:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5b02661
I say correct because there is also active work on tailoring BSF larvae to do the same thing:
https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-023-01649-0