Teen discovers how to decompose plastic bags in 3 months

Very cool.

Fantastic- This kid may really be on to something. I just would have liked for him to have patented his process. It would be a shame if some corporation took his ideas, developed them, and made billions, leaving him out of the loop!

That's exciting. Maybe we'll finally get somewhere with our landfill problems.

I agree. I hope he has patented the idea, or his parents and their attorneys get the ball rolling.

simple yeast and water to grow the culture....huh.

In the other section titled "Young science star stays out of the limelight"

"Burd has been invited to the Canadian Intellectual Properties Office to discuss possibilities for patenting his ideas"

I'm sure his parents are by his side.

I'm so proud of him, and the fact that he is a teen too. I think this is a very important discovery!

now



watch this practical solution disappear with all the other ones

what a buzz kill man

banana clip

More young people want to help.

Young people present proposals to G-8 leaders with UNICEF's help

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27294&Cr=group&Cr1=eight

yup...

It probably will disappear. There's no money in it.

The microbes are not genetically modified so can't be patented.

It would be costly to build a plant to run all your trash bags filled with trash through a solution for 6 weeks to get rid of the bags before the rest of the trash goes to a landfill. 6 weeks of trash is a lot of trash in most metro areas.

Removing the trash from the bags and putting the bags in a microbe solution would also be costly. It could probably only be done by hand sorting.

Without a government requirement this won't happen anytime soon.



Of course this could lead to genetically modified microbes that eat plastic and can survive and thrive in the landfill. Perhaps a liquid filled with the microbes sprayed on trash as it is buried.

ECO - Enviroment Children Organization

A child speaks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC4_TV5-7nk