Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya

there is the possibility of a an apocoliptic outcome in something like this , a slow boring apocoloipse where the plastic digesting bacteria mutate and evolve to the point that they no longer need there insect host, and then go on to eat every last bit of plastic on the planet, the article does suggest that developing said bacteria on an industrial scale could be done. From a biological perspective,plastic is a huge and ideal energy dense biological niche that is unused or defended, and nature, famously, abhors a vacume

Mealworms eating styrofoam have known for years now, I think I remember it first around 2020?

How many times will this 'discovery' be made again?

what came first?

Plastic or the plastic eating insect?

Discovery! does that means that someone was actaully looking for that particular plastic eating insect.

Or were they watching a random insect and suddenly noticed it was munching on plastic

Are there more plastic eating insects?

How did the plastic eating insect survive before plastic became their main source of food.

Maybe they ate wild naturally grown plastic.

I am sure the answers will come to me after my second coffee.