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The environmentalists nightmare - an industrial solution for plastic trash
This is a great story about a young person that might made the problem of plastic trash much more manageable. I hope that he will make lots of money from this, he surely deserve it.
Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months.
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Burd says this should be easy on an industrial scale: all that’s needed is a fermenter, a growth medium and plastic, and the bacteria themselves provide most of the energy by producing heat as they eat. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide.
It is interesting to note that the solution emerge from the, basically, inexpensive work of private initiative while the public money was invested in developing programs and regulations that will restrict the use of available less expensive materials. I already feel sorry for those who need to find another excuse for doomsday prophecies that will enable them to tell everybody what not to do