#plasticwaste — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plasticwaste, aggregated by home.social.
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How Portugal’s bottle return scheme is helping kids earn money.
The first ever bottle deposit return scheme in southern Europe is helping the environment - and funding kids’ bucket list trips.
#Recycling #BottleReturnScheme #EnvironmentalProtection #PlasticWaste #Portugal
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This Startup’s AI Designs Enzymes That Can Eat Plastic Waste
In a lab tucked away in an old gun factory in New Haven, Connecticut, a machine heated plastic waste to 536 degrees Fahrenheit and spat out gloopy strings of material that start to harden when they hit the air. This substance made of textiles and post-industrial scrap that were destined for a landfill will be ground to bits to create as much surface area as possible. Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using […] -
Polymer Editing Can Upcycle Waste Into Higher Performance Plastics
Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy By editing the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material. Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only 9% gets recycled; the rest is incinerated or winds up in landfills, oceans or elsewhere……Continue […] -
India is facing a growing plastic waste crisis. It’s time to reduce, reuse, and recycle to protect our environment for future generations. Let’s take responsibility today! ♻️🇮🇳
#plasticwaste #plasticfreeindia #environment #sustainability #recycle #cleanindia #zerowaste #stopplasticpollution #greenindia #savetheplanet
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Something I stumbled across that is making me feel better about the world:
The Flipflopi Project, which has built the first ever sailing dhow made from recycled plastic, which was at the time probably the biggest item made from recycled plastic at 9m long. Now they are almost done with the second boat, which is 24m long.
This project:
- pays locals to collect plastic waste from beaches, out of sensitive and CO2-storing mangrove forests and from households
- uses this waste and recycles it to make new materials for the boats
- experiments with using solar cookers to heat up plastic for processing
- is saving trees from having to be cut down for the boats
- works with traditional dhow builders, keeping this craft alive
- teaches students about the different stages of the project, how to sort, recycle, use plastic as well as weaving, carpentry (with wood and plastic), metalwork, traditional and high-tech machines and boat building
- sailed along the coast of east Africa and around Lake Victoria, connecting communities around the region
- raises awareness about plastic pollution, recycling, and spreads joyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mT2dQ8Og18
#plastic #waste #PlasticWaste #recycling #upcycling #PlasticRecycling #TheFlipflopi #TheFlipflopiProject #dhow #boat #sailing #SailingBoat #Kenya #Lamu #EastAfrica #SolarCooking #BeachCleanup #PlasticRevolution