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A developmental biologist and amateur beekeeper has come up with a new way to get rid of used plastic bags: Make waxworms eat them. The larvae of the greater wax moth, these caterpillars thrive on beeswax.
一名發展生物學家及業余養蜂人想出了一種擺脫廢舊塑料袋的新方法：讓臘蟲吃了它們。大蠟螟的幼蟲--這些毛毛蟲依靠蜂蠟成長。
It turns out the caterpillars can actually break down the bag's polyethylene into ethylene glycol, which can be readily converted into useful substances such as antifreeze. Polyethylene is very hard to break down, making the 80 tons produced a year a big recycling challenge but it seems a solution may be in reach.
事實證明這些毛毛蟲能把塑料袋里的聚乙烯分解成乙二醇，這樣就能將其轉變成防凍劑之類的有用物質。聚乙烯很難分解，每年會生產出80噸聚乙烯，這在循環上是個難題，不過看似就要有解決方法了。
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