Undergraduate Research Aims to Harness the Power of Mealworms to Degrade Plastic

February 11, 2021 • by Amanda Figueroa-Nieves

Undergraduates at the UT Austin Inventors Program are exploring how mealworms, and the microbes in their guts, can naturally degrade household plastics.

Meal worms and plastic

Interior of a bin with polyethylene and mealworms. Photo courtesy of Emily Samson.


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