Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made [pdf]

Post by ripsawridge » Sun, Jan 13, 2019, 11:31 AM UTC

adriand wrote: post #3

ArtWomb wrote: post #2

I was literally just thinking about this problem. At some point in the future, as alternatives such as hemp-based composite bioplastics become available. The entire environment will have to be "de-polymerized" manually. Rather than simply releasing an engineered enzyme into the wild and allowing degradation to occur in situ. What would be the drawback of simply creating a global fund for actual human cleanup at scale…

> What would be the drawback of simply creating a global fund for actual human cleanup at scale? With some set incentivizing price for retrieval, say $0.01 per gram? I'm imagining huge machines trawling the landscape, chewing up beaches and scouring forest floors, controlled by bots that automatically guide them to the nearest plastic recycling depot where they disgorge their contents and then move on. They'll be pow…

Post by mrhappyunhappy » Sun, Jan 13, 2019, 10:56 PM UTC

adriand wrote: post #3

ArtWomb wrote: post #2

I was literally just thinking about this problem. At some point in the future, as alternatives such as hemp-based composite bioplastics become available. The entire environment will have to be "de-polymerized" manually. Rather than simply releasing an engineered enzyme into the wild and allowing degradation to occur in situ. What would be the drawback of simply creating a global fund for actual human cleanup at scale…

> What would be the drawback of simply creating a global fund for actual human cleanup at scale? With some set incentivizing price for retrieval, say $0.01 per gram? I'm imagining huge machines trawling the landscape, chewing up beaches and scouring forest floors, controlled by bots that automatically guide them to the nearest plastic recycling depot where they disgorge their contents and then move on. They'll be pow…

Post by johnNash04 » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 1:23 AM UTC