Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to upcycle plastic into soap. Around 120 grams to 130 grams of plastic can make 100 grams of soap.
Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to upcycle plastic into soap. Around 120 grams to 130 grams of plastic can make 100 grams of soap.
Because it gives economic value to plastics, helping to pull them out of the waste stream.
Its a bandaid no different than using plastics in roads or for backfill. The plastic needs to chemically change into something that is processable by nature without fucking everything up
Changing it into soap does change it chemically. It becomes just like the soap you use every day.
Nature, bacteria, has already evolved to process plastic
Edit. Literally a few posts down on my feed
https://lemmy.world/post/4075369
On a scale far below anything that we can reasonably count on anytime soon and only under certain conditions. It won’t be the miracle solution to the mountains of plastic we’ve produced over the last century
Scale changes everything