Teen tackles plastic bags
Ah…plastic bags. What luxury it is to take home so many from the grocery store. Not! In an age where people are trying to act in ways that are more environmentally sensitive, these bags are a constant reminder of what we are doing wrong. They pollute landfills and represent our consistent overconsumption.
One Canadian teen is working on a solution to the waste that these bags cause. For a school science competition, Daniel Burd chose to see what would make these plastic bags decompose. He has found a bacteria that can do the job. More research is being done to see how the process could be sped up. This can have pretty huge implications for landfill waste management.
Source: Student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags
