Two things I learned today from reddit:

1. Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya. Worms eat and digest styrofoam, it was enough for them to survive on.

https://theconversation.com/plastic-eating-insect-discovered-in-kenya-242787

2. There was a time when wood was not bio-degradable. Trees would just fall and not rot, piling up. Took millions of years for organisms to learn digesting them.

https://www.livingcarbon.com/post/how-the-first-trees-nearly-froze-the-earth