Team4 presentation

1. NANOCELLULOSE
ANATURALSOLUTIONTOSAVEOURSEAS

2. MEDITERRANEANSEA:ADIFFERENTWORLD
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3. Seaweeds Ghostfishing Extinction
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WHAT’SHAPPENING?

4. WildlifeandPlastic Entrapments
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WHYDOESITHAPPEN?
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PlasticIngestion

5. EUROPE:PLASTIC’SSECONDWORLDPRODUCER
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Recycled
In landfills
Burnt
16.7 million
tonnes

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150.000-500.000
70.000-130.000
1%
7%
1.25 million fragments per Km2
PROPORTIONFISH-PLASTIC
COUNTRIESTHATDUMPMOREPLASTIC

7. LITTEREDBEACHES,ANYSOLUTION?
STARTUPCOMPANIES
Newborn companies started
cleaning beaches to reuse the plastic
in everyday life products, like
sunglasses.
CITIZENS
In some parts of the world
citizens started cleaning beaches,
like Afroz Shah, who started a
project to clean the most polluted
beach of India.
INSTITUTIONS
A different solution for the problem
could come from public institutions
like schools.
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8. Nanocellulose is a light solid
substance obtained from plant
matter which comprises
nanosized cellulose fibrils.
This new material is a
pseudo-plastic and possesses the
property of specific kinds of
fluids or gels that are generally
thick in normal conditions.
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ANEWSTARTUPTHATUSESNANOCELLULOSE

9. NANOCELLULOSEADVANTAGES:GENERAL
Cellulose is a
very versatile
material
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Produced in large
quantities in a
cost-effective
manner
Cellulose is the
most abundant
polymer on
Earth

10. ➔ Lightweight;
➔ Electrically conductive;
➔ Non-toxic;
➔ Transparent crystalline
form;
➔ Impermeable gas;
➔ Very high tensile
strength;
➔ Highly absorbent.
NANOCELLULOSEADVANTAGES:PHYSICAL
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11. MAGNIFICATION
HOMOGENIZER
NANOCELLULOSEMAKING
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READYTOGO
BEATING
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12. CUTLERY
OURPRODUCTS
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BOWLS
PHARMACEUTICALFORMULATION
BOWELS

13. THANKS!
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SITOGRAPHY
https://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/a4_plastics_med_web_08june_new.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_eDLyfzp8
https://wwf.be/assets/IMAGES-2/NEWS/Plastic/WWF-MMI-Report-2019-Stop-the-Flood-of-Plasti
c-low.pdf
https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3139
https://qz.com/599759/by-2050-there-will-be-more-plastic-than-fish-in-the-sea/#:~:text=The%20
amount%20of%20plastic%20in,million%20metric%20tons%20(tonnes).&text=In%20that%20case
%2C%20by%202025,be%20roughly%20one%20to%20three.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35562253