Potential Breakthrough In Turning Plastic Trash Into Something Expensive
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Top Comments (10)
People in 100 years: "How do we get rid of all this graphene in nature!!!"
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.
The last time life developed a polymer that ended up everywhere was during the carboniferous with its lignin
It's time to replace plastic with algae and seaweed there's already several companies doing this and they are using the existing infrastructure.
In the oceans alone there have been at least a dozen microorganisms and fungi identified that have evolved to use plastic as food.
That is akin to turning iron into gold. Amazing stuff and wonderful people.
Upcycling of plastics potentially funding, and expanding, something like The Ocean Cleanup would be feedback loop I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing.
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.
Transforming plastic. Been hearing this one millions of times and for decades. What are the odds this one will work.
I read somewhere that only 10% of our recycling stuff is used elsewhere. We have big problems with plastic.
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Top Comments (10)
People in 100 years: "How do we get rid of all this graphene in nature!!!"
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.
The last time life developed a polymer that ended up everywhere was during the carboniferous with its lignin
It's time to replace plastic with algae and seaweed there's already several companies doing this and they are using the existing infrastructure.
In the oceans alone there have been at least a dozen microorganisms and fungi identified that have evolved to use plastic as food.
That is akin to turning iron into gold. Amazing stuff and wonderful people.
Upcycling of plastics potentially funding, and expanding, something like The Ocean Cleanup would be feedback loop I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing.
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.
Transforming plastic. Been hearing this one millions of times and for decades. What are the odds this one will work.
I read somewhere that only 10% of our recycling stuff is used elsewhere. We have big problems with plastic.