A million plastic bottles a minute

Dundee

Fading day by day.
Use my outdoor grill and feed my wood burning fireplace whenever I can (my county is trying to ban using a fireplace).
Remember, where there is smoke, there is flavor.
Doesn't care about footprints.
There the things that you leave in the blood patch of the last animal you killed.
And of course it's the governments fault again...or the warmunists...
Clearly they are just making this shit up.
 

Ras

Honorable
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This gonna be huge !

( Not my feet lol, Diva )

Lol

I bought some regular toothpaste yesterday.
Its Colgate branded and was 80 % more expensive than the other.

It doesnt look, feel or taste as good as the one containing plastic..

Whats next ? Toothpaste with sugar ?

Hey i use Colgate brand too, i've been using it since young. I wonder why they would put plastic in those toothpaste.
 
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CasualBystander

Celestial
Doesn't care about footprints.
There the things that you leave in the blood patch of the last animal you killed.
And of course it's the governments fault again...or the warmunists...
Clearly they are just making this shit up.

Clearly they are just making this shit up.

Oh, so you do understand. Good.
 

CasualBystander

Celestial

3FEL9

Islander
Bali is far enough south it is probably due to those pesky Australians.

Yeah, Its a hot country down there. They gotta go through 6-8 bottles aday a person to stay hydrated.

Once they throw them in the ocean the natural buoyancy will move them from the low lattitudes up to Bali, which is located higher up in the sea.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
A Plastic-Eating Bacteria May Save Us From Our Bottles

Over 342 million tons (311 metric tons) of plastic is produced annually worldwide. Only 14% is collected and recycled, according to the World Economic Forum. This plastic, particularly polyethylene terephthalate (PET), degrades very slowly.

Recently, scientists in Japan have discovered bacteria that can degrade it.

Co-author of the recent study and microbiologist at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, Kohei Oda says,

The bacterium is the first strain having a potential to degrade PET completely into carbon dioxide and water.

By screening natural microbial communities exposed to PET in the environment (outside of a bottle recycling facility), the scientists isolated the bacterium that is able to use PET as its major energy and carbon source. Up until now, the only species found to break down PET is a rare fungi.


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The new species of bacteria, named Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 breaks down and metabolizes plastic by using two enzymes to hydrolize PET and a primary reaction intermediate, eventually yielding basic building blocks for growth, the study states.

The scientists were able to break down a thin layer of PET almost entirely after its being exposed the bacteria for six weeks at a temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius).

Appendages released from the cells were shown to secrete compounds that helped dissolve the plastic. This microscopic organism, in which 40 million bacteria cells can reside in gram of soil, may hold the key to eliminating plastic waste.

Oda sums up,
We hope that we can develop a technology to handle such a lot of wasted PET

That’s a lot of used plastic water bottles!
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
A Plastic-Eating Bacteria May Save Us From Our Bottles

Over 342 million tons (311 metric tons) of plastic is produced annually worldwide. Only 14% is collected and recycled, according to the World Economic Forum. This plastic, particularly polyethylene terephthalate (PET), degrades very slowly.

Recently, scientists in Japan have discovered bacteria that can degrade it.

Co-author of the recent study and microbiologist at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, Kohei Oda says,



By screening natural microbial communities exposed to PET in the environment (outside of a bottle recycling facility), the scientists isolated the bacterium that is able to use PET as its major energy and carbon source. Up until now, the only species found to break down PET is a rare fungi.


Plastic_bottles_seaside_CNNPH.png


The new species of bacteria, named Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 breaks down and metabolizes plastic by using two enzymes to hydrolize PET and a primary reaction intermediate, eventually yielding basic building blocks for growth, the study states.

The scientists were able to break down a thin layer of PET almost entirely after its being exposed the bacteria for six weeks at a temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius).

Appendages released from the cells were shown to secrete compounds that helped dissolve the plastic. This microscopic organism, in which 40 million bacteria cells can reside in gram of soil, may hold the key to eliminating plastic waste.

Oda sums up,


That’s a lot of used plastic water bottles!

We knew this was happening because plastic is disappearing.

What is bad is your Irish deck guests will start collapsing.
 

Captain Tinkle

Honorable
It was in the news today that as China have stopped taking our plastic waste to dispose of, the UK government is now stuck what to do with it.

The politicians have no plans for the short term on what to do and have no idea in the long term.

Very unlike our politicians to plan ahead. They have only known the Chinese were implementing this plan at least three months ago...
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
Before blaming Australians for this mess you ought to look in your own back yard.

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We have states with the population of Australia.

And it ain't US, we are too far from Bali, wherever that is (it isn't one of the twelve or so countries most Americans know).
 

August

Metanoia
We have states with the population of Australia.

And it ain't US, we are too far from Bali, wherever that is (it isn't one of the twelve or so countries most Americans know).

American Myopism is well known down here, you see WE know more about YOU than YOU do about US. And in US I mean the rest of the world. Look at this rubbish have you not heard about recycling ? Shame, shame, shame.

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CasualBystander

Celestial
American Myopism is well known down here, you see WE know more about YOU than YOU do about US. And in US I mean the rest of the world. Look at this rubbish have you not heard about recycling ? Shame, shame, shame.

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We do recycle.

We dump it in large pits so we can harvest the material 20,000 years in the future.

Millennia from now the US will be the raw material resource king of the planet.
 

August

Metanoia
We do recycle.

We dump it in large pits so we can harvest the material 20,000 years in the future.

Millennia from now the US will be the raw material resource king of the planet.

They will just see that you were the sloppiest recyclers the world has ever seen. Barge loads dumped out to sea. Unforgivable.
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
They will just see that you were the sloppiest recyclers the world has ever seen. Barge loads dumped out to sea. Unforgivable.
Well, that I'm not going to defend.

Fureigners could harvest it before we do.

Now if it was nuclear waste and that was a deep ocean trench, that would be a different story.
 
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