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How plastic-eating worms could be solution to Southeast Asia's waste problem

(10 Mar 2024) SINGAPORE SUPER WORM SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTION SUMMARY: LENGTH: 4:15 ASSOCIATED PRESS Singapore – 23 February 2024 1. Close of a ‘superworm’ crawling on a piece of styrofoam in a petri dish 2. Close of a tupperware full of ‘superworms’ used in the control group of the study, which were fed oatmeal 3. Rack focus from bottles to Liu Yinan wearing gloves and using tweezers to hold up a ‘superworm’ on a piece of styrofoam 4. Wide of Yinan working in a laboratory within the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), as a colleague walks up to join him 5. Mid of Yinan using tweezers to place fresh plastics into a solution of ‘superworm’ gut biomes 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Liu Yinan, research fellow, Nanyang Technological University’s Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering: “We bought ‘superworm’ from local pet store. This ‘superworm’ is very famous because they can eat and break down plastics.” 7. Close of Sakcham Bairoliya holding up a piece of degraded styrofoam, with Bairoliya visible in the background 8. Close of Bairoliya’s hand swirling a flask of fresh plastics in a solution of ‘superworm’ gut biomes 9. Wide of Yinan and Bairoliya walking within the aisles of a laboratory at SCELSE 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sakcham Bairoliya, research fellow, Nanyang Technological University’s Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering: “Once the worms are done feeding with plastics, this is what it looks like. They create holes. We take out the microorganisms from their gut and we put them in flasks with fresh plastics. So, that eventually they start growing on them and degrading them.” 11. Rack focus from flask ‘superworm’ gut biomes without plastic to flask of ‘superworm’ gut biomes with plastics 12. Mid of the three ‘superworm’ groups used in the experiment 13. Close of ‘superworms’ in a tupperware on top of a printed version of the recent research paper published based on the experiment 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Cao Bin, associate professor, Nanyang Technological University’s Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering: “Our study is one of the few studies in this region to look at the microorganisms and plastic interaction in the marine environment and with the ultimate goal to develop novel bio processes for us to manage the plastic waste well.” 15. Close of sign at the National Museum of Singapore’s Plastic101 exhibit that says “Plastic” and is made up of plastic waste 16. Close of sign at the National Museum of Singapore’s Plastic101 exhibit that explains how plastic was invented in 1907 and the chemicals used to create plastics 17. Close of a map at the National Museum of Singapore’s Plastic101 exhibit that shows that more than 50% of the world’s plastic is produced in the Asia-Pacific region 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Cao Bin, associate professor, Nanyang Technological University’s Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering: “Those processes can be a series of reactions to transform these plastic materials into either monomers, or the relatively small molecules that can be converted into something that is even more valuable.” 19. Close of plastic waste, mainly the plastic cups for iced drinks and straws, inside a trash bin at a food court 20. Mid of staff tying up a plastic trash bag filled with plastic waste at a food court 21. Wide of a women texting next to her takeout meal, which includes several single-use plastics 24. Wide of rain pouring on recycling bins at a food court Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...