Chitofoam and plastic-eating mealworms as Styrofoam solution, diamond made from ranch dressing, cannabis car, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 16th

Chitofoam – The transformation of the exoskeletons of plastic-eating mealworms into biodegradable polystyrene substitutes – by feeding that nasty Styrofoam to mealworms in order to make chitosan bioplastic foam is only one of the crazy Top 8 Innovations this week as we kick off ABLC this week.

In today’s Digest, we’ve also got a lab-grown diamond made from Hidden Valley ranch dressing, pepper-infused bioplastic film developed for beef packaging, a retired cannabis car, and more in this week’s Top 8 Innovations.