Native Australian bees could be the next to join the country's ‘War on Waste’ with researchers working to produce a water-repellent and flame-resistant form of natural plastic from the bees’ nesting material.
Veronica Harwood-Stevenson, founder and chief executive of the biotech start-up company, “Humble Bee”, says her work involved trying to understand the cellophane-like bioplastic that lines the bees’ nest.
Ms. Harwood-Stevenson said that creating bioplastic was well within reach, explaining, “Plastic pollution is a very complex and massive problem and we think [this] could be part of the solution."