Abstract
Though the demand and utilization of plastic are constantly increasing due to its various uses, like using them as disposable containers or plastic bags, these plastics have become a huge problem for the environment due to its non-degradable nature. All these plastics have toxic substances that cause water, land and air pollution, when left to accumulate in nature. The plastics
accumulating on the land and in the seas, oceans or rivers is not only affecting the habitat but also the organisms that live in that habitat, especially the marine species that tend to ingest plastic assuming that it is food, which poisons the animals. This indirectly affects the human population as people might consume these fish or other marine animals which ingested these
toxins. Some plastics might be degradable but only with the use of harmful chemicals-which have a negative impact on the environment as these chemical gases cause air pollution. Therefore, the use of living organisms, like wax worms, as natural decomposers for plastic, is very essential to balance the amount of pollution using natural biodegradation. This experiment tested how effectively wax worms would consume various plastics in an average span of 24 hours. The plastics that were provided to the wax worms were Styrofoam (Polystyrene), plastic bags(High-Density Polyethylene-HDPE) and Coca-Cola Bottle (PET-Polyethylene Terephthalate).