Teen figures out how to decompose plastic bags in 3 months
- added May 27, 2008
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For a science fair project, Canadian teenager Daniel Burd isolated the bacterial cultures that degrade plastic. He managed to create a formula that will degrade plastic in 3 months. Plastic normally takes years 1000 years to degrade. This is a great leap forward in terms of waste management; the world produces more than 500 million plastic bags per year, all of which will eventually all end up in landfills.
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- lemonsun12
- 4 months ago
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Intelligence has started to make a comeback
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Those silly Canadians :) ... We need curiosity like that here in the States! I wonder if there is any methane release when the microbes feast on the plastic and could the same microbes tear-up plastic bottles? Great Job Daniel!!!
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that was soo candid.... ahh those silly canadians...
who would think of that honestly.. -
That is incredible! It would be on the verge of brilliant if he filed a patent on the application......woops I bet some one else did.
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