WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags

Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.

After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them.

Now a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster — in three months, he figures.

Daniel, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, got the idea for his project from everyday life.

“Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have this avalanche of plastic bags falling on top of me,” he said. “One day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bags.”

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May 22, 2008
KAREN KAWAWADA
RECORD STAFF
WATERLOO

I just had to share this wonderful new video “Sol Solution” with all of you!

An inspiring combination of youth, hope, and solar energy… what’s not to love!

We need more uplifting solution oriented videos like this to empower our youth and all the big kids too!

In-joy,
Bruce