As I am going through the worms that eat plastic project with my team I’m finding that it is going well so far. The steps we have taken so far are making sure they had a safe place to be examined. We first had to figure out how which worms would eat plastic and which would not. My teams conclusion was that wax worms would be the best option. So we got jars and the wax worms from ms.Lauder and divided them equally into 4 jars with the same size plastic, but they were different types of plastic. From there on it was time to find a spot for them to stay when we weren’t examining them. We had discussed and decided that putting them in the green house would be the best option for them. After a week or so of watching them we had discovered that it was too cold for them so they were slowly dying or hibernating, so no plastic was being eaten. If we kept them in the green house we would not be able to study them, so we decided to move them to room 101. In room 101 we have continued to look over them and see their progress. Even though there is still little to no progress, I am hopeful to see improvement in the coming weeks.

My team and I think that our next steps should be to, watch the temperatures of the room, monitor the size of the plastic and watch how many worms are alive to make sure we get accurate results. We will do this by testing to see how hot the cabinet is when we open it to check on the progress. When we are looking at the plastic we will compare it from the original size of the plastic from when it was first put in. Finally when checking on the size of the plastic and the temperature of the cabinet, we will see how many worms are alive in the four jars and if any have died from the last time we checked. All these steps will help us to further our understanding of whether wax worms will eat plastic, and if so how long does it take for them to eat certain plastics.

This PowerPoint on worms that eat plastic is made from me and my groups experience with the worms and how it turned out.