Unlocking the Secret to Rapid and Complete Plastic Degradation

[@emilianicoleta]

Congratulations for informing us! 👏 I hope to see soon this kind of products on the market.

[@stevemcclendon9297]

Hasn't any one Givin a try to just compress the plastics quickly to add friction for heat and pressure to rebind and then just reuse those plastics, no outside heat and using proper speeds you control the general friction during compression allowing for the rebonding process to work, compared to normal recycling and refining processes this would be adjustable allowing one machine to process multiple types of plastics. It would be cheaper, open up jobs for plastic recovery, and would be less harmful to the enviroment. We can literally recycle what plastic we have and not have to produce more for a while atleast, until structural integrity fails and the enzymes can be introduced to a crushed up and cut up plastic bits allowing quicker breakdown in the natural process.

[@subjekt5577]

Wait, if it's not completely broken down, how is that not just microplastics?

[@nicholasjacome341]

From my understanding, the plastic is transformed into a different kind of molecule (probably more than one) by the enzyme. Those new molecules can be put back together to recreate the plastic they formed or be further broken down into another new molecule. I am not a chemist or biologist though.

[@terenceiutzi4003]

This technology is 300,000,000 years old !

[@shekokarepranavgamil]

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[@nekononiaow]

This is nothing but corporate marketing. First of all, breaking down polymers into monomers is not enough to consider plastics decomposed: they are just microplastics and will even more easily be ingested by animals and humans. Second, this video gives ZERO information about the breaking down conditions: "enough moisture and heat for long enough" is a great way to give no information. Especially if the required heat is that of an industrial process and is not obtainable in nature. And finally no useful time scale is given, making it impossible to evaluate the practicality of it all. This is nothing but a very generic advertisement. The simplest way to avoid plastic pollution is to use less plastic, especially banning single use ones.

[@risingmermo]

Uhm...monomers aren't microplastics

[@nekononiaow]

​@@risingmermo ok, use whatever word you judge more appropriate. They are still pieces of plastic that are every bit as problematic as the full polymers, which is the problem here.

[@risingmermo]

@nekononiaow uhm no they're not. At least not in rhe way your thinking. Breaking down plastics (aka polymers) like they're talking about is literally turning the plastic into its building blocks. Microplastics are just really small pieces of plastics.

[@nekononiaow]

​@@risingmermo you seem to be intent on missing the point. Going to polymers to monomers does not remove any plastic. We just have molecular pollution rather than micro scale. The problem is intact and actually even worse to deal with since those particles are even smaller and harder to filter.