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<p>Every year, more and more plastics are produced. In 2000, 190 million tons of plastic were produced in the world, whereas today, approximatively 300 million tons of plastic are produced.</p> | <p>Every year, more and more plastics are produced. In 2000, 190 million tons of plastic were produced in the world, whereas today, approximatively 300 million tons of plastic are produced.</p> | ||
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<p>In our oceans, more than 90% of the plastic particles are smaller than 5 mm, which makes it almost impossible to clean the oceans and they are small enough to enter our food chain.</p> | <p>In our oceans, more than 90% of the plastic particles are smaller than 5 mm, which makes it almost impossible to clean the oceans and they are small enough to enter our food chain.</p> | ||
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Revision as of 13:46, 10 July 2015
Plasticure
The Problem :
Every year, more and more plastics are produced. In 2000, 190 million tons of plastic were produced in the world, whereas today, approximatively 300 million tons of plastic are produced.
In our oceans, more than 90% of the plastic particles are smaller than 5 mm, which makes it almost impossible to clean the oceans and they are small enough to enter our food chain.
Our solution :
PlastiCure is a biological system based on E.coli designed to degrade plastics and use the degradation products to produce Biologically active compounds. The challenge of the project is to make this two pathways work simultaneously.
By engineering the metabolism of E .coli we want to create a system able to produce a curative product and in the same time help address the issue of plastic pollution.
The idea here is first to create a new way to treat plastic waste but also to produce from plastic a profitable transformation product that will increase efforts in plastic recycling.
For more details, click here