{"id":5503,"date":"2020-09-11T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behzistdanesh.com\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2021-06-05T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T09:26:05","slug":"solving-the-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behzistdanesh.com\/en\/solving-the-plastic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"polystyrene degradation by Beetle larvae"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"social__button-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">News- Beetles with larvae that can digest <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>polystyrene<\/strong> <\/span>may help to solve the world\u2019s mounting <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>plastic waste<\/strong><\/span> crisis. Expanded polystyrene, which is used to make cups and boxes, is increasingly clogging up landfill and polluting <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>oceans<\/strong> <\/span>because it doesn\u2019t <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">biodegrade<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"social__button-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Until recently, no organisms were known to be able to <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">break down<\/span><\/strong> polystyrene. But Hyung Joon Cha at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea and his colleagues have discovered that the larvae of a north-east Asian beetle called Plesiophthalmus davidis<\/div>\n<div class=\"social__button-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">can do the job<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">7\/20\/2020<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2249155-beetle-larvae-that-eat-polystyrene-may-help-solve-plastic-waste-crisis\/\">www.newscientist.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News- Beetles with larvae that can digest polystyrene may help to solve the world\u2019s mounting plastic waste crisis. Expanded polystyrene, which is used to make cups and boxes, is increasingly clogging up landfill and polluting oceans because it doesn\u2019t biodegrade Until recently, no organisms were known to be able to break down polystyrene. 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