How much wild plastic we can find in the oceans around the world? How big is the plastic soup? How big is the damage on our sea life? How can we prevent plastic pollution from destroying vulnerable marine ecosystems?
This is a pressing problem for our world.
Focusing on materials, ocean cleaning technology, reuse, and changing the value chain, we will come far in developing solutions that can help to combat plastic pollution in the ocean.
Producing bioplastic instead of toxic, synthetic plastic is a part of the solution. When fish and other sea animals eat biobased plastic, they won’t get sick or die this time. Add to that, most bioplastic dissolve in water, degrade or will fully perish by time.
Plastic cutlery is one of the top ten plastics found on the shores of the ocean.
Disposable sporks are included. You can get these sporks for free in several supermarkets or fast food restaurants. I think we can change the world by creating bioplastic sporks, not only because it is a three in one cutlery set. That means one third of the normal waste and use of resources, these sporks are also made of tapioca and agar agar, a completely biodegradable starch-based plastic which stands up to repeated use and prolonged contact with liquids, achieving 95 percent degradation under normal aerobic composting conditions.
Different recipe experiments
Straws
Ingredients > material > spork
Ingredients > material > spork
Ingredients > material > spork
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