This ‘Bio Plastic’ Is 100% Compostable And Poised To Change The World

Didn't they discover some insect or bacteria recently that eats plastic?  In abundance too.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/wax-worms-eat-plastic-polyethylene-trash-pollution-cleanup/
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Thanks for posting that link trilby22 very interesting.

Thank you also for posting the topic, bigmo.  Are you related to moisok, by any chance?

The biodegradeable stuff would be great.  Perhaps the scientists might introduce the worms, as a great many seem to be needed otherwise.

I Googled insect eats plastic to find it and there is plenty more info there.  https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=insect+eats+plastic&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=h3hKWtXuJob98wf4qoDwBQ#cns=0&gfe_rd=cr&spf=1514883144197
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Not sure that link will work but we'll soon see.

There is a wide range of different plastics for a reason, properties have to be tailored to the end use.
While compostable plastic could replace some it won't replace all plastics by a long way. We have to decide which uses are essential and which discretionary and cut back on the throwaway society. Do we really need to package water and soda in single use plastic and do we need them in the vast quantities which we currently consume? Just one example.

more or less fked up parts of the ocean already

and it is not big plastic bottles

its all the tiny tiny particles they evolve into

already in your haddock and chips on a good night

your big problem will be the emerging industrial nations and of course china

How can plastic remain in fish? If something's indigestible, then in any adult animal it simply gets excreted out of the other end, the same as it would in us, if we were to consume it.

Boyan Slat: How we will rid the oceans of plastic (May 2017)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du5d5PUrH0I

Surely these so-called garbage patches are just evidence of how readily plastics degrade under the effects of ultraviolet light and microbes? None of these patches is visible to the naked eye - they're defined as areas comprising 4 microscopic particles per cubic metre, the last tangible effects of the plastic degrading naturally.

Apart from PVC used in window frames and pipes, every type of plastic seems to degrade of its own accord if left in sunlight or when buried (or if you try re-using one to carry four pints of milk home).

Don't get me wrong: I pick up a carrier bag of mostly plastic litter per day from the lanes, woods and rivers where I live. I hate with a passion motorists - the obese, sweating, stinking ****s of the planet - whose ugly vehicles are so precious they can't carry home the remains of a Happy Meal, a Costa Coffee and a Red Bull.

If you want to tackle plastics pollution, the most effective way would be to start on land, and kill every fat, farting drip who holds a driving licence.

That's one way of putting it.

I need a seething emoji.

If I ever once saw a motorist stop and pick up any of the cascades of multicoloured filth with which their fellow motorists ruin the ancient hedges of the West Country, I might seethe less.

But never, not once in the history of the world, has a motorist ever stopped to pick up litter. That's the job of pedestrians innit. Motorists are much too important (and too fat) to do that sort of thing.

The problem is that fat motorists really struggle to get out and pick up rubbish.  It would take too long.  And then they are at risk of being mown down by an east european trucker playing with his phone or laptop

Motorists are not "fellows" responsible for the detritus of others. Pedestrians are not immune from littering and many mornings have begun for me clearing fast food cartons, drinks containers and chocolate bar wrappers from the road outside my home.
You might like to read "Litter: The Remains of Our Culture" by Theodore Dalrymple (less than £3 on Kindle) and quietly seethe in the knowledge that you are not alone.

The great advantage of plastic is that it isn't biodegradeable.

Biodegradeable plastics will never be more than a niche product.

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Totally agree with motorists and litter. Anywhere will do as long as it's not inside their precious car. And as for the amount of McDonalds packaging you see dumped on the side of the road................

MPs call for 25p charge on takeaway coffee cups ahead of possible ban

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/05/mps-25p-charge-takeaway-coffee-cups-possible-ban-environmental-audit-committee-report

whatever happened to global warming?? 

I have always said the crap we pour out in waste was a bigger problem and we will poison ourselves eventually.
But people were too busy making money out of 'warming'  ho ho

they even have their own ministries

in every town and city council house  they have a climate change officer - talk about parkinson's law