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So why are we still designing with plastics?
They were made from hard plastics and that's why they were very breakable.
The models couldn't sit in them, and they even got scratched from the plastics under their arms.
Why can't we just recycle them like many plastics?
As plastics sit there being compressed amongst layers of other junk, rainwater flows through the waste and absorbs the water-soluble compounds it contains, and some of those are highly toxic.
And most plastics don't biodegrade, which means they're destined to break down into smaller and smaller pieces called micro plastics, which might rotate in the sea eternally.
Well, engineers already have a very good understanding of how aluminum, steel and plastics fracture under stress.
Plastics: you know about them, you may not love them, but chances are you use them every single day.
Mental note to the liberators: throwaway plastics take a lot of space and don't biodegrade.
Plastics are also hard to recycle.
A teacher told me how to express the under-five-percent of plastics recovered in our waste stream.
Direct air capture is a great example of a chemical pathway, and people are using that right now to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and manufacture biofuels or manufacture plastics.
The worst thing about plastics, as soon as it hits the environment, is that it fragments.
CA: So what's your idea, then, to try to change that in plastics?
Over two or three years, the entire global plastics industry can transition from getting its building blocks from fossil fuel to getting its building blocks from plastic.
So all you do is, you've got fossil fuel plastics at this value and recycled plastic at this value.
Incredibly, we can grow all kinds of structures using living organisms, from foams that can replace plastics in footwear, to leather-like materials without animals.
They have higher melt temperatures than plastics.
Living organisms are transforming waste into cost-competitive, performance-matching materials that can start to replace plastics and other CO2-emitting materials.
Plastics aren't going away anytime soon.
At the same time, there are enzymes that have been discovered and that are being optimized to make non-petroleum-derived biodegradable plastics.
So today, we pump millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the air, we dump plastics, fertilizers and industrial waste into the rivers and oceans, and we cut down forests that absorb CO2.
They manufacture plastics.
But before I do that, I need to talk to you about synthetic materials like plastics, which require huge amounts of energy to create and, because of their disposal issues, are slowly poisoning our planet.
We're using mushrooms to create an entirely new class of materials, which perform a lot like plastics during their use, but are made from crop waste and are totally compostable at the end of their lives.
But first, I need to talk to you about what I consider one of the most egregious offenders in the disposable plastics category.
Upon educating myself a little further about plastics, I actually realized this was a bad thing.
We need to cut the spigot of single-use and disposable plastics, which are entering the marine environment every day on a global scale.
In the United States, less than seven percent of our plastics are recycled.
Whenever possible, refuse single-use and disposable plastics.
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