New flies could then eat the plastic before being turned into plastic themselves. Rinse and repeat. There’s a slight whiff of cannibalism in an emerging circular model for sustainable plastics. Insects may soon be used as materials for engineering bioplastics—before the next generation of insects eats their plastic kin and become plastic themselves.Read Full Story

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