{"id":7840,"date":"2022-06-22T08:08:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T08:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behzistdanesh.com\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2022-06-22T08:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T08:08:55","slug":"plastic-eating-superworms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behzistdanesh.com\/en\/plastic-eating-superworms\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic-Eating &#8216;Superworms&#8217; Could Fight World&#8217;s Garbage Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">News- Researchers at the University of Queensland (Australia) have discovered the common Zophobas morio \u2018<strong>superworm<\/strong>\u2019 can eat through <strong>polystyrene<\/strong>, thanks to a bacterial enzyme in their gut<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chris Rinke and his team from UQ\u2019s School of Chemistry and Molecular <strong>Biosciences<\/strong> fed superworms different diets over a three-week period, with some given polystyrene foam, some bran and others put on a fasting diet<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We found the superworms fed a diet of just polystyrene not only survived, but even had marginal weight gains\u201d, Rinke said. \u201cThis suggests the worms can derive energy from the polystyrene, most likely with the help of their gut microbes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cSuperworms are like mini <strong>recycling plants<\/strong>, shredding the polystyrene with their mouths and then feeding it to the bacteria in their gut\u201d, he said. \u201cThe breakdown products from this reaction can then be used by other microbes to create <strong>high-value compounds<\/strong> such as <strong>bioplastics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This research has been published in <em>Microbial Genomics<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">21.06.2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/waste-management-world.com\/resource-use\/are-superworms-the-solution-for-our-plastic-waste-problem\/\">www.waste-management-world.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News- Researchers at the University of Queensland (Australia) have discovered the common Zophobas morio \u2018superworm\u2019 can eat through polystyrene, thanks to a bacterial enzyme in their gut Chris Rinke and his team from UQ\u2019s School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences fed superworms different diets over a three-week period, with some given polystyrene foam, some bran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Plastic-Eating &#039;Superworms&#039; 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