Also, you can’t realistically release trillions of superworms into the ecosystem to digest all the plastic. The only time where this can be taken advantage of is in a controlled, closed environment. But plastics in those environments aren’t the issue, and you can just as easily break them down chemically or thermally. It’s the plastics out in the natural environment that’s the problem, including the invisible, subcellular scale microplastics, and the actual hard part is finding it all and collecting it to be processed.
Yeah, I hate the excitement over any potential “fix” that doesn’t require us to change our way of life even just slightly
Living slightly less convenient but also less wasteful lives is the solution, and we could do it now if we just had the (political) will
Also, you can’t realistically release trillions of superworms into the ecosystem to digest all the plastic. The only time where this can be taken advantage of is in a controlled, closed environment. But plastics in those environments aren’t the issue, and you can just as easily break them down chemically or thermally. It’s the plastics out in the natural environment that’s the problem, including the invisible, subcellular scale microplastics, and the actual hard part is finding it all and collecting it to be processed.