The magnitude of our plastic waste problem has scientists searching far and wide for answers, and for a team at Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) this search has led them to hungry little ...

Plastic is choking our environment. About 400 million tons of plastic waste is thrown out every year with between 75 to 199 million tons floating in oceans and endangering aquatic ecosystems, ...

The common Zophobas morio ‘superworm,’ seen here chowing down on some delicious polystyrene (The University of Queensland) (CN) — What if the key to solving one of our thorniest environmental dilemmas ...

An international group of researchers have discovered that “superworms,” a species of worms that can be at least five times the size of mealworms and wax worms, are pretty damn good at digesting ...