Our study endeavors to testify the feasibility of biomass from plastic and styrofoam eating

mealworms as an alternative source of energy, specificaly fuel.

The world right now is facing environmental problems. One of these problems is pollution
caused by toxic materials such as plastics and styrofoam. Over 8 million metric tons of plastic
ends up in the ocean and Philippines is the world's 3rd biggest dumper of it. Addressing this
issue through reducing pollution is the intention of the study.

Thus, we, the researchers, will utilize larvae organism called Tenebrio molitor or known as
mealworms. We will let these larvae eat up plastics and styrofoam. These organisms contains
gut microbiota that facilitates the depolymerization or the degradation of polymers, which is a
component of plastic and styrofoam. The mealworm gut is considered an efficient bioreactor.
Further, these mealworms will egest biomass.

And this biomass will be added to kerosene and methanol. Then, we will create setups that
compare the durability between kerosene and methanol alone versus kerosene and methanol
with biomass. The results will verify the efficiency of biomass from mealworms as renewable
source of energy.