A very bright yound student has successfully completed his first round of experiments looking for microbes and proper environmental conditions that will decompose of plastic bags in 3 months time rather than 1000 years time. The results are VERY promising.
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16 Year Old Student Finds Way to Decompose Plastic Bags in 3 Months
(via news.therecord.com)
Submitted by jquipp on Tue, 2008-05-27 13:54. | Tags: technology | Bags | decompose | landfill | plastic
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