The Oceans are Saved!

[Flyn]

100% recyclable plastic?

New type of plastic that breaks down in an acid bath to its component molecules has been discovered.

Industry can use these molecules to build whatever type of plastic product they want and easily reduce it to those molecules when you recycle it.

Plastic pollution in the world's oceans may have a $2.5 trillion impact, negatively affecting "almost all marine ecosystem services," including areas such as fisheries, recreation and heritage. But a breakthrough from scientists at Berkeley Lab could be the solution the planet needs for this eye-opening problem – recyclable plastics.

The study, published in Nature Chemistry, details how the researchers were able to discover a new way to assemble the plastics and reuse them "into new materials of any color, shape, or form."

“Most plastics were never made to be recycled,” said lead author Peter Christensen, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, in the statement. “But we have discovered a new way to assemble plastics that takes recycling into consideration from a molecular perspective.”

https://www.foxnews.com/science/holy-grail-recyclable-plastics

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[Flyn]

Nobody cares? 100% recyclable plastic.

IT'S A GAME CHANGER, PEOPLE!

The oceans could be cleaned up in a generation if this type of plastic starts being used.

Landfills could be reduced in size.

The Philippines and Canada wouldn't have to go to war.

Everybody posts and cries when a giant space rock might have a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance of hitting earth but this real invention that could change history gets nothing?

 

[VenomousDSG]

[MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION]

Will somebody PLEAAAASE think of the sealife!!!

 

[Mook]

let me know when its actually put into practice.

 

[Kensington]

How much does it cost? Not going to be widely used if it costs 10x what a normal plastic container costs to produce. And as [MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION] said, let me know when it's actually in practice. There have been plenty of "miracle cures" or "discoveries" made in labs, that have vanished like a fart in the wind. Big plastic gonna knock it down

 

[Sprayin]

 

[Mook]

Watched a vid on IG of some fuckbag dumping buckets of trash into the ocean off their boat the other day...has common sense just vanished completely?

 

[Yaj Yak]

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-01-13/5-countries-dump-more-plastic-oceans-rest-world-combined

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Watched a vid on IG of some fuckbag dumping buckets of trash into the ocean off their boat the other day...has common sense just vanished completely?

I hope their boat sank and he had a leg bit off by a shark

 

[Kensington]

Also, if the only way for this new plastic to disolve is an acid bath, the plastic is still going to float into the ocean for eternity...Now if the plastic somehow was able to disintegrate in water...but what use would that be for holding my fizzy beverage?

 

[Flyn]

The problem with plastics now is most of them aren't recyclable.

Recycling would work a lot better if they could toss all the plastic into one acid wash bin.

 

[Kensington]

But if you look at the article [MENTION=19]Yaj Yak[/MENTION] posted, the problem is that most of the ocean plastic was never even destined for a recycling center...it is intentionally dumped or accidentally dumped where it makes its way to the ocean. Yeah, I'm sure that an acid bath could reduce SOME of the plastic waste, but it doesn't solve the core issue.

 

[Yaj Yak]

But if you look at the article [MENTION=19]Yaj Yak[/MENTION] posted, the problem is that most of the ocean plastic was never even destined for a recycling center...it is intentionally dumped or accidentally dumped where it makes its way to the ocean. Yeah, I'm sure that an acid bath could reduce SOME of the plastic waste, but it doesn't solve the core issue.

#tcgdoesn'treadbro

 

[Pressure Ratio]

You assume companies will pay to have the plastic recycled instead of still being dumped in the ocean.

Since this is not biodegradable in seawater, the oceans are not saved.

And due to the cost of manufacturing the plastic, we all will have to pay more for this plastic. We pay more, the ocean still fucked over. Nothing changes but our bank account and the pockets of executives at big companies.


*edit* Kensington beat me to the issue still at hand.

 

[Yaj Yak]

no i did

 

[Pressure Ratio]

No, you posted a link. Kensington made the comment.


Thanks for playing.





I'll give you a pat on the back for the effort.


btw, I did the TCG thing and didn't click the link. Deal with it. lol

 

[Yaj Yak]

HAHAHA K THANKS

 

[Yaj Yak]

reading is tough, one day you'll get there.

 

[Pressure Ratio]

I don't know. Because I have someone who follows me around, reads things I point at, and then tell me what it says. This person and I have become real close. I'm not sure I want to learn to read as it may end our relationship. I think it is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

 

[Yaj Yak]

fuck, do you have to feed said person?

 

[Pressure Ratio]

I did click the link after I posted. I am not surprised by the 5 countries that make up about 60% of what is dumped in the ocean.

 

[Pressure Ratio]

fuck, do you have to feed said person?

No. I found a way to file it as a disability. The government pays this person to do this. So doesn't cost me a penny.

He does like Portillo's chocolate shakes. So I buy him one once in a while. I'm guud like that.

 

[Yaj Yak]

oh

it's a he

interesting

 

[Pressure Ratio]

 

[radioguy6]

Yeah cool stuff but its another pipe dream. We could also convert plastic back into a usable fuel too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=102&v=lyNHVOa5P0U

Big oil has too much influence in plastics. Plastic and petrochemical demand is globally rising in developing nations. So while fossil fuel demand decreases, their plan to stay viable is going to be in plastics.