Luddly Neddite
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Plastic-Dissolving Spray Could Shrink Landfills
Plastic is killing our planet. People are not going to stop using it and we don't recycle near enough so we need to find some way of dealing with it.
The idea to develop a plastic-eating spray to decrease landfill capacity began as a roundabout convergence of ideas by a couple of Brigham Young University students neither of whom had focused on waste management before.
While spending time in Sweden on a mission trip, Brock Bennion and Nate Parkin noticed how clean the country was compared to the U.S. and became curious as to how they disposed of their waste. At the same time, they realized how much better care Scandinavians took of their environment.
Bennion had also read an article about how they used bacteria to eat the oil on the Louisiana coast after the BP oil spill. The idea for what would become PlasTek was born once the two returned to the U.S. more waste-conscious and compared notes. A few more friends and relatives got on board and they were off to change the [waste management] world.
Plastic is killing our planet. People are not going to stop using it and we don't recycle near enough so we need to find some way of dealing with it.