Can Plastic-Eating Worms Solve Our Trash Problem?
Plastics are everywhere, and we can't seem to get rid of them. Could a worm be the solution we need? Does Recycling Actually Help? ▻▻▻▻ http://dne.ws/16zXnMX DNews Live Tickets...
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I love my drive through coffee in the morning as much as the next gal, but the cup it comes in? Not so much. It could stay in landfill FOREVER. But hey maybe the early worm gets the disposable foam. Hey guys Julia here for DNews Plastic can be great. It’s durable, flexible, and used in everything from medical equipment to floss, to the cup my coffee comes in. Buuuut, unfortunately, most plastics either don’t or take a very long time to break down. Most plastics are made from processes like heating up petroleum, this rearranges the molecules so it becomes polypropylene, forged together by strong carbon-carbon bonds. These strong bonds are hard to break apart, and because it takes a lot of energy to make molecules like polypropylene, nature doesn’t break the...
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I love my drive through coffee in the morning as much as the next gal, but the cup it comes in? Not so much. It could stay in landfill FOREVER. But hey maybe the early worm gets the disposable foam. Hey guys Julia here for DNews Plastic can be great. It’s durable, flexible, and used in everything from medical equipment to floss, to the cup my coffee comes in. Buuuut, unfortunately, most plastics either don’t or take a very long time to break down. Most plastics are made from processes like heating up petroleum, this rearranges the molecules so it becomes polypropylene, forged together by strong carbon-carbon bonds. These strong bonds are hard to break apart, and because it takes a lot of energy to make molecules like polypropylene, nature doesn’t break the...
