Review of 'Plastic agriculture using worms: Augmenting polystyrene consumption and using frass for plant growth towards a zero-waste circular economy.'

One review was more favorable, and the other was far less, albeit with fair queries.

There was somehow some confusion that degradation and consumption are different and separate things when it is known that PS does not disappear by itself and any PS weight loss is essentially consumption by worms, thus testing for PS presence in the frass demonstrates both consumption and degradation.  Perhaps we were not able to reflect this properly. On the point around line 185 and figure, there is a reversion of the words mealworms and superworms, but otherwise, it is consistent the sugar had effect on both, but bran only for mealworms. 

 Unfortunately despite showing requested  raw data and responding that we had only access to GC-MS and could not access to the high-end equipment for detailed chemical analysis and pointing to the previous literature to address queries on how the worms ate the PS (which were already done by numerous groups), the responses were still deemed insufficient. Bit of a downer waiting almost 8 months to get a negative outcome.