Environmental Engineering and Design
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Suppose for a moment that everybody wanted to create new designs for everyday things that would increase the welfare of our environment.
What kinds of things would be easiest to change? What would be most impactful?
Specifically the packaging industry and single use disposable items are probably one of the biggest problem sectors.
I've seen some places use biodegradable single use utensils. They basically work the same but the material is a little more paper based. Unfortunately the pipeline to produce these biodegradable forks and knives is not capable of producing at the scale of the plastic manufacturers. And still there's a large swarth of other items that still use plastic.
I think the best thing we could do is create a plastic that can be recycled into energy or something. As it stands burning plastics to get rid of them is a standard practice. It's not such a long shot to just change the polymer into something that could be used to store and release energy.
How?
Well you can turn it into acid to make batteries. https://nypost.com/2019/12/12/scientists-find-way-to-produce-electricity-with-plastic-waste/
When?
As soon as people start doing it. I'm not sure how hard it is to work with, but converting trash we have too much of into something useful will become an industry very soon. It's about to be a new gold rush.
What kinds of things would be easiest to change? What would be most impactful?
Specifically the packaging industry and single use disposable items are probably one of the biggest problem sectors.
I've seen some places use biodegradable single use utensils. They basically work the same but the material is a little more paper based. Unfortunately the pipeline to produce these biodegradable forks and knives is not capable of producing at the scale of the plastic manufacturers. And still there's a large swarth of other items that still use plastic.
I think the best thing we could do is create a plastic that can be recycled into energy or something. As it stands burning plastics to get rid of them is a standard practice. It's not such a long shot to just change the polymer into something that could be used to store and release energy.
How?
Well you can turn it into acid to make batteries. https://nypost.com/2019/12/12/scientists-find-way-to-produce-electricity-with-plastic-waste/
When?
As soon as people start doing it. I'm not sure how hard it is to work with, but converting trash we have too much of into something useful will become an industry very soon. It's about to be a new gold rush.
