Wax worms to the rescue.

[basin79]

Plastic-eating greater wax moth may help solve pollution crisis
http://news.sky.com/story/plastic-eating-greater-wax-moth-may-help-solve-pollution-crisis-10849437

 

[Andrea82]

Plastic-eating greater wax moth may help solve pollution crisis
http://news.sky.com/story/plastic-eating-greater-wax-moth-may-help-solve-pollution-crisis-10849437

That would be awesome...go waxies!

 

[houston]

Cool stuff... Now all we gotta do is normalize eating 'em and we have a solution to plastic pollution AND the food crisis!

 

[Ratmosphere]

So cool!

 

[The Snark]

So the mighty opposable thumb anthropoda needs to rely on bugs to clean up it's mess. Sounds about right.

 

[Acro]

And mealworms eat Styrofoam!
I found this a few months ago: http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-092915.html
Both of these are very promising!

 

[Aquarimax]

And mealworms eat Styrofoam!
I found this a few months ago: http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-092915.html
Both of these are very promising!

My daughter is now interested in doing her science project on mealworms vs. styrofoam.