This link has been bookmarked by 25 people . It was first bookmarked on 28 May 2008, by Kevin Champion.
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11 Oct 10
Entropy FilesDetails on the 16 y.o. student that is developing a bacteria-fueled industrial process to decompose plastic bags rapidly into environmental friendly products.
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17 May 10
James ChoateGetting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.
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12 Mar 10
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29 Jul 09
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02 Jun 08
bob dolanGood for this kid. The over-riding question is how can he do it when professional researchers cannot? Seriously. Too busy working on Viagra clones is my guess.
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28 May 08
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Jeremy ZweiackerGetting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.
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26 May 08
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25 May 08
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24 May 08
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Shane GraberNow a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster -- in three months, he figures.
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To see if his process would work on a larger scale, he tried it with five or six whole bags in a bucket with the bacterial culture. That worked too. Industrial application should be easy, said Burd. "All you need is a fermenter . . . your growth medium, your microbes and your plastic bags." The inputs are cheap, maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide -- each microbe produces only 0.01 per cent of its own infinitesimal weight in carbon dioxide, said Burd. "This is a huge, huge step forward . . . We're using nature to solve a man-made problem."
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To see if his process would work on a larger scale, he tried it with five or six whole bags in a bucket with the bacterial culture. That worked too. Industrial application should be easy, said Burd. "All you need is a fermenter . . . your growth medium, your microbes and your plastic bags." The inputs are cheap, maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide -- each microbe produces only 0.01 per cent of its own infinitesimal weight in carbon dioxide, said Burd. "This is a huge, huge step forward . . . We're using nature to solve a man-made problem."
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