🃏Joker to NewsEnglish • 1 month agoPlastic-eating insect discovered in Kenyatheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1310arrow-down12cross-posted to: jingszo
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink25•1 month agoFinally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester
minus-square@Etterralink13•1 month agoThey’re mealworms of a species already found on numerous continents, I think it’ll be fine.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoAs if housing wasn’t expensive enough already.
Hmmm… How to create an invasive species in 3…2…1…
Finally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester
They’re mealworms of a species already found on numerous continents, I think it’ll be fine.
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.