Upcycled plastic can be turned into soap, researchers find (scrippsnews.com)

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Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to upcycle plastic into soap. Around 120 grams to 130 grams of plastic can make 100 grams of soap.

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[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Its a bandaid no different than using plastics in roads or for backfill. The plastic needs to chemically change into something that is processable by nature without fucking everything up

[-] number6@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

Changing it into soap does change it chemically. It becomes just like the soap you use every day.

[-] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nature, bacteria, has already evolved to process plastic

Edit. Literally a few posts down on my feed

https://lemmy.world/post/4075369

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

On a scale far below anything that we can reasonably count on anytime soon and only under certain conditions. It won't be the miracle solution to the mountains of plastic we've produced over the last century

[-] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Scale changes everything

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