Comments on: 16 year old’s science project finds microbe that digests plastic bags http://futurismic.com/2008/05/28/16-year-olds-science-project-finds-microbe-that-digests-plastic-bags/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: meiso http://futurismic.com/2008/05/28/16-year-olds-science-project-finds-microbe-that-digests-plastic-bags/comment-page-1/#comment-16975 meiso Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:27:37 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3348#comment-16975 ". A collection of plastic the size of a large country is currently floating in the gyres of the Pacific Ocean. Some plastic waste takes 1000 years to be broken down by nature." Plastic never decomposes, it just breaks down into smaller chemicals. And the gyre is not a floating island, the plastic is concentrated so much there that when samples are taken from the ocean you see something like a 60 plastic to 1 living organism ratio. That means...because of our plastic, we have changed the entire composition of our ocean. I really hope this works. “. A collection of plastic the size of a large country is currently floating in the gyres of the Pacific Ocean. Some plastic waste takes 1000 years to be broken down by nature.”

Plastic never decomposes, it just breaks down into smaller chemicals. And the gyre is not a floating island, the plastic is concentrated so much there that when samples are taken from the ocean you see something like a 60 plastic to 1 living organism ratio. That means…because of our plastic, we have changed the entire composition of our ocean. I really hope this works.

]]> By: Trinsec http://futurismic.com/2008/05/28/16-year-olds-science-project-finds-microbe-that-digests-plastic-bags/comment-page-1/#comment-14799 Trinsec Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:19:03 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3348#comment-14799 Hey, give this boy a noble prize! :D Hey, give this boy a noble prize! :D

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