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Posted on 03/08/2006 8:30:23 PM PST by djf
Immortal Styrofoam Meets its Enemy By Robert Roy Britt LiveScience Managing Editor posted: 07 March 2006 09:27 am ET
There's an old joke that if you were reincarnated, you might want to come back as a Styrofoam cup.
Why? Because they last forever. Ba-dum-bum.
Despite being made 95 percent of air, Styrofoam's manufactured immortality has posed a problem for recycling efforts. More than 3 million tons of the durable material is produced every year in the United States, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Very little of it is recycled.
Help may come from bacteria that have been found to eat Styrofoam and turn it into useable plastic. This is the stuff recycling dreams are made of: Yesterday's cup could become tomorrow's plastic spoon.
Kevin O’Connor of University College Dublin and his colleagues heated polystyrene foam, the generic name for Styrofoam, to convert it to styrene oil. The natural form of styrene is in real peanuts, strawberries and a good steak. A synthetic form is used in car parts and electronic components.
Anyway, the scientists fed this styrene oil to the soil bacteria Pseudomonas putida, which converted it into biodegradable plastic known as PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates).
PHA can be used to make plastic forks and packaging film. It is resistant to heat, grease and oil. It also lasts a long time. But unlike Styrofoam, PHA biodegrades in soil and water.
The process will be detailed in the April 1 issue of the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Plastic forks made outta bug poop? I ain't using no fork made outta no bug poop!
(redneck mode)
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It burns better if you mix it with gasoline and then throw in a few mothballs.
Why not? You drink bovine mammary excretions, and eat bee barf don't you? You also swallow about a bug a month in your sleep. Bread is partially yeast excreta, as is beer. Alcohol is also yeast waste.
You already consume bug poop. You just never thought about it before.
It's likely newsprint, the packing material for the continuous stream of BS the lefties are constanly trying to pawn off as fact.
I thought that was spiders?
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