Fourteen year old girl from Mariupol introduced innovative work on the recycling of plastic waste and ranked second in the world in the Biology Olympiad in the Netherlands. It is reported by the correspondent

Catherine Malkin – a student of grade 9 technical lyceum of Mariupol – just returned from Niderdandov. There, she took second place at the International Biology Olympiad.

In total in the competition was attended by over 200 children from around the world. But this project is more than most of Ukrainian judges and the audience interested.

“We’ve made a discovery. We have found the larvae of various beetles, which easily can eat plastic – bottles, bags, plastic. This is our opening and we will it soon be patented. In the Netherlands, to us immediately approached the vice-president of the Dutch company for the production of plastic and suggested They’re interested in cooperation in this recovery, “-. E.Malkina said.

Preparations for an international competition, Katya took more than six months. During this time she held a series of experiments and studied the large number of species of larvae and beetles. The next stage – to realize its project in full production. But in Ukraine, recycling plastic waste with organic organisms anyone uninteresting, so the girl and her teacher in biology Vyacheslav Ponomarchuk will work for foreign investors.