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hippich on Oct 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam

"The worms converted about half of the Styrofoam into carbon dioxide, as they would with any food source."

hanoz on Oct 1, 2015 | [–]

So as long as we only hunt down already existing worms and substitute their other food source with plastic, there should be no impact.

wfunction on Oct 1, 2015 | [–]

I would imagine we're going to grow more worms, not hunt down the existing ones.

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