### id263940360 darkling beetles can digest plastic > a line of beetles that can digest plastic. Darkling beetles (and their associated gut microbes) can already do this a little. Maybe if someone selectively bred them for this ability, they could do it better. Plastic is generally considered bad for the environment because it's "not biodegradable", but maybe everything is biodegradable if you have sufficiently advanced beetles. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fr46vp0eyka32wby0x5hyn36) - [[ACX Grants Results by Scott Alexander#id263940360 darkling beetles can digest plastic|View in Vault]]