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[차형준교수] New Species of Darkling Beetle Larvae Degrades Plastic

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There floats an unlimited plastic rubbish island within the North Pacific that’s seven occasions the dimensions of the Korean Peninsula. The island, referred to as the Nice Pacific Rubbish Patch, is the results of 13 million tons of plastic that move into the ocean yearly from the 20,000 items of plastic consumed per second all over the world. Plastic takes many years to a whole lot of years to decompose naturally with plastic luggage taking 10 to 20 years, nylon merchandise or disposable straws 30 to 40 years, and plastic water bottles – generally used as soon as then thrown away –500 years to decompose. This drawback of plastic, which has been labeled a human catastrophe, has been not too long ago confirmed to be decomposable by beetles widespread in Korea.

A joint analysis staff consisting of Professor Hyung Joon Cha and a doctoral pupil Seongwook Woo of the Division of Chemical Engineering at POSTECH with Professor Intek Music of Andong Nationwide College has uncovered for the primary time that the larvae of the beetle within the order Coleoptera (Plesiophthophthalmus davidis) can decompose polystyrene, a fabric that’s tough to decompose.
 

- Read more at https://todayheadline.co/new-species-of-darkling-beetle-larvae-degrades-plastic/

 

- Related news:

 https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/puos-ans072020.php

 https://phys.org/news/2020-07-species-darkling-beetle-larvae-degrade.html