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This Plastics 101 video from National Geographic summarizes the rise of plastic use since the 1950s, and emphasizes the harmful effects of single-use plastics on the environment. It also touches on more recent discoveries, including two Stanford studies that have shown how mealworms, darkling beetle larvae, can eat 34-39 milligrams of styrofoam per day and how Galleria mellonella moth caterpillars, wax worms, can chemically break down polyethylene plastic when they eat it.
