Earth has a major problem
created by human: Plastic. To deal with it, currently the innovation is a
bacterium for the one of biggest environmental crisis that we are facing. It is developed by students Jeanny Yao and Miranda Wang , who have been working on
this project since their early school years and now it’s close to becoming a
reality. They already have patents and have gained a funding of 400 thousand
dollars to start making the product.
Their project has already won
5 prizes. All thanks to its small bacteria capable of breaking down plastic
into CO2 and water. The technique can work ion 2 ways: To clean the beaches and
also to yield raw resources for clothing.
Miranda Wang said: "It
is practically impossible to make people stop using plastic, we need technology
to break the material, and everything becomes biodegradable, "
You can learn more about
this here.
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