Plastic - Blessing or curse?
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A story about plastic and my personal experiences when I lived in Maldives; there is very little text, but you may find the pictures useful...
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- 1. PLASTIC - BLESSING OR CURS Bibi Gratzer, Marine Ecologist, Writer www.bibigratzer.com
- 9. 100 kg/yr/person 20 kg/yr/person
- 11. • Inexpensive • Light weighted • Relatively durable • Withstands heat (aerospace technology) • Excellent thermal, electrical and acoustical insulation properties • Easily shaped • Easy to color
- 35. • When PVC (polyvinylchloride) is burnt, carbon monoxide, dioxins and furans are released into your air • Dioxin is a known human carcinogen: It is the most potent synthetic carcinogen ever tested in the laboratory animals
- 37. • We currently recover only 5% of the plastics we produce • 50 % of the plastic is used only once and then thrown away • Typically a plastic is not recycled into the same type of plastic, and products made from recycled plastics are usually not recyclable again (e.g. bottle becomes chair)
- 38. 1. Thermo Plastics: 80% (can be remolded into any other desired shape under heat and pressure) RECYCLABLE 2. Thermosetting Plastics: 20% (cannot be softened/ remoulded once shaped )
- 48. Eric Klarenbeek's Mycelium Chair Novacem plastic curbstone enzymes are combined with the plant - polyhdroxyb utyrate-co- polyhydroxy valerate, or PHBV is produced. (grocery bags, soda bottles, flatware and disposable razors)
- 49. • Due its flexible properties plastic production has led to ubiquity and has become a monopole • Large quantities of plastic waste • Energy production • Lack of stewardship: complexity of recycling • Habitat degradation • Micro-plastic
- 50. PLASTIC - BLESSING OR CURS Bibi Gratzer, Marine Ecologist, Writer www.bibigratzer.com Special thanks to
Editor's Notes
- Donna Richardson
- Donna Richardson
- When I imagine the world without plastic, I start to feel unclean and gross. What would the modern world smell like if molded plastics weren’t here to hold and ship our cleaning supplies?
- I was determined to make plastic less on the islands
- A recent study revealed that 8 million tons of plastic waste flows into our oceans each year, enough to cover every foot of coastline in the world."
- 50 different groups of plastics, with hundreds of different varieties
- The Surfrider foundation in Baltimore http://www.theoceancleanup.com/
- In constructionNovacem plastic curbstone, which can replace building materials like steel, wood, etc. The plastics are light weight and require little maintenance. Company has developed a new formula of locking CO2 into construction materials bacterial enzymes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. When the two