Effective solutions to the vast amounts of plastic waste we produce are still being sought, and four innocuous insects that ...

Enzymes found in the saliva of wax worms can degrade one of the most common forms of plastic waste. This is based on research published in October that could create new ways to deal with plastic ...

a plastic used in shopping bags which clog up landfill sites and pollute our oceans. Federica Bertocchini, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), removed a batch of wax worms ...