Canadian student solves the plastic bag issue

May 31, 2008 in Ideas | Tags: environment

http://www.psfk.com/2008/05/using-microbes-to-eat-plastic-bags.html

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July 23, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Ole

Bugs eating the bags does not really solve the problem, as producing the bags consume valuable and non renewable petrochemicals, and ultimately the microbal processes will end up releasing CO2, which would otherwise have been bound up for 1000 year in the buried bags

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