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Potential Breakthrough In Turning Plastic Trash Into Something Expensive

2024-09-01 Science & Technology
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@lunequedelrio3646 2024-09-01

People in 100 years: "How do we get rid of all this graphene in nature!!!"

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@WaterShowsProd 2024-09-02

I remember how they promoted the idea of plastic bags as being environmentally friendly because it saved trees (despite paper tree groves being a sustainable farming technique), and plastic bottles being less harmful because you wouldn't be troubled by broken glass in parks and at the beach. It was a marketing campaign that people fell for with tragic results in a short amount of time.

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@patrickfle9172 2024-09-01

The last time life developed a polymer that ended up everywhere was during the carboniferous with its lignin

243 85 replies
@ThisTruckingLife 2024-09-01

It's time to replace plastic with algae and seaweed there's already several companies doing this and they are using the existing infrastructure.

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@CandideSchmyles 2024-09-01

In the oceans alone there have been at least a dozen microorganisms and fungi identified that have evolved to use plastic as food.

155 19 replies
@karol8525 2024-09-01

That is akin to turning iron into gold. Amazing stuff and wonderful people.

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@yzenynot 2024-09-01

Upcycling of plastics potentially funding, and expanding, something like The Ocean Cleanup would be feedback loop I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing.

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@TheClumsyFairy 2024-09-01

I know this might be an obvious point, but I'll make it anyway. If they can make it from micro plastics, surely it's easier to make their own micro plastics rather than going to the trouble (and a BIG trouble it would indeed be) of trying to recover micro plastics from the environment. All this will do is create a larger market for plastics rather than do anything about the contamination out there.

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@markvwood2007 2024-09-01

Transforming plastic. Been hearing this one millions of times and for decades. What are the odds this one will work.

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@dp0004 2024-09-03

I read somewhere that only 10% of our recycling stuff is used elsewhere. We have big problems with plastic.

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