plastic it’s everywhere it’s in our
homes it’s in our pockets it’s in our
blood streams but how much do we really
know about it
welcome to watchmojo.com and possibly
controversial facts surrounding plastic
if we solve the plastic problem we were
at the same time solve a lot of our
social form number five Lego wants to
stop using petroleum-based plastic in an
ambitious but respectable move by Lego
the world famous Danish toy company has
set a goal to completely rehaul the
production process and halt their use of
abs an oil-based plastic by 2030 this
proves to be a daunting challenge as
Lego produces over 60 billion abs based
bricks a year and must invest millions
of dollars into finding a new oil-free
alternative that will still feel and
look exactly the same
luckily there are various alternatives
in the production of plastic scientists
from Stanford University have found a
way to produce plastic from inedible
plant material and carbon dioxide a
concoction that could potentially
replace petroleum-based plastics there
also exists a synthetic plastic called
Galilee which comes from a protein found
in milk called casein and fortunately
Galilei cannot be molded and production
stopped during World War Two as milk was
rationed and used as food number four
plastic is bad for you in unexpected
ways as if plastic wasn’t controversial
enough already research has found that
phthalates which are used in plastic
products can cause birth defect if
pregnant women are exposed to a high
quantity of them this can cause
intellectual deficits and children
developmental and behavioral issues and
even genital abnormalities and males new
research done at UCLA also shows that
the chemical bps a replacement for the
controversial BPA can alter reproductive
systems and accelerate embryonic
development their experiments were
conducted on zebrafish and caused the
egg hatching process to speed up on
naturally resulting in a premature birth
and as for that diabolical plastic
packaging that everyone hates but nobody
seems to do anything about according to
the Consumer Product Safety Commission
over 6,000 Americans are sent to the
emergency room every year for injuries
from trying to open these packages
you’re in a sealed plastic package I’m
the first one to ever open them
number three plastic waste could move to
the depths of the ocean because of
plankton feces it’s no secret now that
there’s a crazy overabundance of plastic
litter in the ocean this contentious
matter has been the topic of discussions
for years but the situation could get a
whole lot worse a recent study published
in the journal Environmental Science and
Technology suggests that the microscopic
feces of zooplankton could be filled
with plastic these zooplankton eat tiny
pieces of plastic that are smaller than
one millimeter and when they defecate
these micro plastics mix with their
feces and float to the ocean depths it’s
estimated that there are over five
trillion pieces of micro plastics
currently floating in the water this is
also problematic because many creatures
ingest plankton as a food source as you
can imagine consuming plastic causes a
host of problems on an ecological scale
number two new technologies are being
tested to reduce sea based plastic
pollution lucky for our oceans and the
creatures living within them there are
ideas that will hopefully reduce the
massive amount of plastic waste
currently floating in the water a group
called the ocean cleanup currently have
an idea to place long floating barriers
in the water that can catch and stop
trash as it floats by on the ocean
currents once trapped this debris will
then be extracted back to land for
recycling the company is preparing for
deployment in 2020 and they claim that a
100 kilometer long cleanup array can
remove up to 40% of the Great Pacific
Garbage Patch over a 10-year period
there is also a device called the sea
bin which aims to being use by late 2016
effectively acting like a fish tank
filter the sea bin literally sucks up
trash another harmful debris while
spitting out clean water back into the
ocean it operates 24/7 and claims to be
completely safe for fish and other
aquatic animals number one plastic
decomposes much faster in the ocean that
on land on land plastic clutters
landfills as it takes hundreds of years
for a piece of plastic to fully
decomposed however put a piece of
plastic in the ocean and it degrades
surprisingly quickly researchers from
neon University have discovered that
polystyrene decomposes and water within
a year under the right weather
conditions interestingly enough there
are some surprising ways in which
plastic can safely decompose for example
students from Yale University recently
discovered type of fungus in the amaz
that can survive on a diet of
polyurethane a common form of plastic
scientists have also recently found that
bacteria in the gut of a wax worm could
also degrade polyethylene
finally researchers from North Dakota
State University have made a discovery
that could lead to a fully degradable
plastic when exposed to a specific type
of light all solutions are still being
sought it’s comforting to know that
there is some hope for the future so
what’s your opinion on plastic do you
think that the great cleanup will be a
success for more biodegradable talk tens
and plastic pooping top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
homes it’s in our pockets it’s in our
blood streams but how much do we really
know about it
welcome to watchmojo.com and possibly
controversial facts surrounding plastic
if we solve the plastic problem we were
at the same time solve a lot of our
social form number five Lego wants to
stop using petroleum-based plastic in an
ambitious but respectable move by Lego
the world famous Danish toy company has
set a goal to completely rehaul the
production process and halt their use of
abs an oil-based plastic by 2030 this
proves to be a daunting challenge as
Lego produces over 60 billion abs based
bricks a year and must invest millions
of dollars into finding a new oil-free
alternative that will still feel and
look exactly the same
luckily there are various alternatives
in the production of plastic scientists
from Stanford University have found a
way to produce plastic from inedible
plant material and carbon dioxide a
concoction that could potentially
replace petroleum-based plastics there
also exists a synthetic plastic called
Galilee which comes from a protein found
in milk called casein and fortunately
Galilei cannot be molded and production
stopped during World War Two as milk was
rationed and used as food number four
plastic is bad for you in unexpected
ways as if plastic wasn’t controversial
enough already research has found that
phthalates which are used in plastic
products can cause birth defect if
pregnant women are exposed to a high
quantity of them this can cause
intellectual deficits and children
developmental and behavioral issues and
even genital abnormalities and males new
research done at UCLA also shows that
the chemical bps a replacement for the
controversial BPA can alter reproductive
systems and accelerate embryonic
development their experiments were
conducted on zebrafish and caused the
egg hatching process to speed up on
naturally resulting in a premature birth
and as for that diabolical plastic
packaging that everyone hates but nobody
seems to do anything about according to
the Consumer Product Safety Commission
over 6,000 Americans are sent to the
emergency room every year for injuries
from trying to open these packages
you’re in a sealed plastic package I’m
the first one to ever open them
number three plastic waste could move to
the depths of the ocean because of
plankton feces it’s no secret now that
there’s a crazy overabundance of plastic
litter in the ocean this contentious
matter has been the topic of discussions
for years but the situation could get a
whole lot worse a recent study published
in the journal Environmental Science and
Technology suggests that the microscopic
feces of zooplankton could be filled
with plastic these zooplankton eat tiny
pieces of plastic that are smaller than
one millimeter and when they defecate
these micro plastics mix with their
feces and float to the ocean depths it’s
estimated that there are over five
trillion pieces of micro plastics
currently floating in the water this is
also problematic because many creatures
ingest plankton as a food source as you
can imagine consuming plastic causes a
host of problems on an ecological scale
number two new technologies are being
tested to reduce sea based plastic
pollution lucky for our oceans and the
creatures living within them there are
ideas that will hopefully reduce the
massive amount of plastic waste
currently floating in the water a group
called the ocean cleanup currently have
an idea to place long floating barriers
in the water that can catch and stop
trash as it floats by on the ocean
currents once trapped this debris will
then be extracted back to land for
recycling the company is preparing for
deployment in 2020 and they claim that a
100 kilometer long cleanup array can
remove up to 40% of the Great Pacific
Garbage Patch over a 10-year period
there is also a device called the sea
bin which aims to being use by late 2016
effectively acting like a fish tank
filter the sea bin literally sucks up
trash another harmful debris while
spitting out clean water back into the
ocean it operates 24/7 and claims to be
completely safe for fish and other
aquatic animals number one plastic
decomposes much faster in the ocean that
on land on land plastic clutters
landfills as it takes hundreds of years
for a piece of plastic to fully
decomposed however put a piece of
plastic in the ocean and it degrades
surprisingly quickly researchers from
neon University have discovered that
polystyrene decomposes and water within
a year under the right weather
conditions interestingly enough there
are some surprising ways in which
plastic can safely decompose for example
students from Yale University recently
discovered type of fungus in the amaz
that can survive on a diet of
polyurethane a common form of plastic
scientists have also recently found that
bacteria in the gut of a wax worm could
also degrade polyethylene
finally researchers from North Dakota
State University have made a discovery
that could lead to a fully degradable
plastic when exposed to a specific type
of light all solutions are still being
sought it’s comforting to know that
there is some hope for the future so
what’s your opinion on plastic do you
think that the great cleanup will be a
success for more biodegradable talk tens
and plastic pooping top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
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