高考Researchers in spain and england recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene, which accounts for 40% of plastics.
西班牙和英国的研究人员最近发现，大蜡蛾的蠕虫可以分解聚乙烯，聚乙烯占塑料的40%。
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高考The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.
研究小组将100只蜡虫放在一个商用聚乙烯购物袋中12小时，这些蜡虫消耗并分解了约92毫克，约占总量的3%。
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高考To confirm that the worms' chewing alone was not responsible for the polyethylene breakdown, the researchers made some worms into paste and applied it to plastic films.
为了证实蠕虫单独的咀嚼并不是聚乙烯分解的原因，研究人员将一些蠕虫制成糊状物，并将其涂在塑料薄膜上。
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高考Jennifer Debruyn, a microbiologist at the university of tennessee, who was not involved in the study, says it is not surprising that such worms can break down polyethylene.
田纳西大学的微生物学家Jennifer Debruyn没有参与这项研究，他说，这种蠕虫可以破坏聚乙烯，这不足为奇。
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