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minus-squareHomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32arrow-down1·2 months ago Instead of releasing a huge number of these insects into trash sites (which isn’t practical) Try it anyway!
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·2 months agoHmmm… How to create an invasive species in 3…2…1…
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoThey’re mealworms of a species already found on numerous continents, I think it’ll be fine.
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·2 months agoFinally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoGoodbye built human world !
minus-squarepageflight@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoBack to building with stone, metal, and wood.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAs if housing wasn’t expensive enough already.
minus-squareMonument@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 months agoAbout time! The kind of funny thing is that if this happened for real, the next big plastic product would just be pesticide impregnated plastics. And then we’d have pesticide microplastics everywhere!
Try it anyway!
Hmmm… How to create an invasive species in 3…2…1…
They’re mealworms of a species already found on numerous continents, I think it’ll be fine.
Finally, a clothes moth that can eat polyester
Goodbye built human world !
Back to building with stone, metal, and wood.
As if housing wasn’t expensive enough already.
About time!
The kind of funny thing is that if this happened for real, the next big plastic product would just be pesticide impregnated plastics. And then we’d have pesticide microplastics everywhere!