IMAGE: THIS IMAGE SHOWS A WAX WORM CHEWING A HOLE THROUGH PLASTIC. POLYETHYLENE DEBRIS CAN BE SEEN ATTACHED TO THE CATERPILLAR. 蜡螟虫在聚乙烯塑料上咬出一个洞 Generally speaking, plastic is incredibly resistant to breaking down. That's certainly true of the trillion polyethylene plastic bags that people use each and every year. But researchers reporting in Current Biology on April 24 may be on track to find a solution to plastic waste. The key is a caterpillar commonly known as a wax worm.一般而言，塑料是一种难以降解的材料，而另一个事实是人们每年使用数万亿只塑料袋，这样就导致了一个全球性的环境污染问题。但在4月24日有研究者在Current Biology 上发表了一篇文章，该文章宣称找到一种解决塑料垃圾的新途径，而这一解决方案的核心是一种叫
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