There’s a new hope that the plastic-pocalypse isn’t just around the corner for planet Earth. Despite the tens of millions of tons of plastic we throw away each year, the key to turning it all around might boil down to something you wouldn’t expect: worm guts—literally.
Looking at just Styrofoam cups alone, Americans discard 2.5 billion of them each year—merely a fraction of the 33 million tons of plastic that goes to waste in the United States annually. And we know it takes plastic literally hundreds of years to biodegrade on its own.
