The world’s annual consumption of plastic materials has increased from around 5 million tons in the 1950s to much more then100 million tons today. People worldwide seem to have a love–hate affair with plastic. Although we are aware that plastic is harmful, we just cannot do without it and are using plastic products more than ever before. And when it comes to recycling it, the confusion continues as plastic isn’t considered to be recycle-friendly. But Daniel Burd dared to challenge this and has come up with solution to decompose plastic bags a bit more faster. This 16 year old teen from Ontario high school has won the top prize at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa for his project. Motivated by the daily mess of these bags, he set to work to put an end to this nuisance. Since its takes thousands of years for such wasteful objects to disintegrate, Daniel realized that by using bacteria, you can get rid of this menace in just three months!
Spending enough time studying over this problem, this green teen figured out that by mixing landfill dirt, yeast, tap water, and ground plastic and letting it sit, the plastic decomposed at a much higher rate than normal. This can also be applied on a large-scale as it will be relatively energy efficient and give out only water and a small amount of carbon dioxide in the process. So not much a harm to our environment too. At least better then clogging drains, canals and our store rooms.
Great job dude and I am sure many other teens will also be inspired to think and act green! Simply clicking away on your game consoles or cell phones isn’t going to do anything positive for you as well as you planet.
Via: Dvice
