Joker@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoPlastic-eating insect discovered in Kenyatheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1290
arrow-up1290external-linkPlastic-eating insect discovered in Kenyatheconversation.comJoker@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareHomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·5 days ago Instead of releasing a huge number of these insects into trash sites (which isn’t practical) Try it anyway!
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·5 days agoHmmm… How to create an invasive species in 3…2…1…
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·5 days agoFinally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester
minus-squareMonument@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days 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-up5·4 days agoBack to building with stone, metal, and wood.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days 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
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.