11. • Inexpensive
• Light weighted
• Relatively durable
• Withstands heat (aerospace
technology)
• Excellent thermal, electrical and
acoustical insulation properties
• Easily shaped
• Easy to color
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35. • When PVC (polyvinylchloride) is
burnt, carbon monoxide, dioxins
and furans are released into your
air
• Dioxin is a known
human carcinogen: It is the most
potent synthetic carcinogen ever
tested in the laboratory animals
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37. • We currently recover only 5% of the
plastics we produce
• 50 % of the plastic is used only once and
then thrown away
• Typically a plastic is not recycled into the
same type of plastic, and products made
from recycled plastics are usually not
recyclable again (e.g. bottle becomes
chair)
38. 1. Thermo Plastics: 80% (can be
remolded into any other desired
shape under heat and pressure)
RECYCLABLE
2. Thermosetting Plastics: 20%
(cannot be softened/ remoulded
once shaped )
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48. Eric Klarenbeek's Mycelium Chair
Novacem plastic curbstone enzymes are
combined
with the
plant -
polyhdroxyb
utyrate-co-
polyhydroxy
valerate, or
PHBV is
produced.
(grocery
bags, soda
bottles,
flatware and
disposable
razors)
49. • Due its flexible properties plastic
production has led to ubiquity and has
become a monopole
• Large quantities of plastic waste
• Energy production
• Lack of stewardship: complexity of
recycling
• Habitat degradation
• Micro-plastic
50. PLASTIC -
BLESSING OR CURS
Bibi Gratzer, Marine Ecologist, Writer
www.bibigratzer.com
Special thanks to
Editor's Notes
Donna Richardson
Donna Richardson
When I imagine the world without plastic, I start to feel unclean and gross. What would the modern world smell like if molded plastics weren’t here to hold and ship our cleaning supplies?
I was determined to make plastic less on the islands
A recent study revealed that 8 million tons of plastic waste flows into our oceans each year, enough to cover every foot of coastline in the world."
50 different groups of plastics,
with hundreds of different varieties
The Surfrider foundation in Baltimore
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/
In constructionNovacem plastic curbstone, which can replace building materials like steel, wood, etc. The plastics are light weight and require little maintenance. Company has developed a new formula of locking CO2 into construction materials
bacterial enzymes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. When the two