Plastics created from orange peel

BBC NEWS ^ | 20 January, 2005 | A.N.Other

[ijcr]

Time for us in Florida to plant more oranges.

[Izzy Dunne]

So those plastic oranges in the plastic fruit baskets will be made from.... oranges ???

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I can't wait for the envirowacko apoplexy. Which do we choose -- more CO2 in the air or more plastic in the landfill?

[Hessian]

Shouldn't that be "a navel polymer".......

[tfecw]

haha exactly...

"Does not compute, Does not compute Circuit overload"

followed by exploding heads. Unfortunately that's based on the idea that envirowacko's are logic creatures

[PeterPrinciple]

using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.


This struck me, why use greenhouse as an adjective here? Is the reporter stupid or does he/whe think the readers are?

[Samwise]

One word--plastic.

[Sacajaweau]

IMHO...If we'd go back to paper rather than plastic and wood furniture, toys, paper grocery bags etc, instead of plastic, we'd be a lot better off. BIODEGRADABLE

[PAR35]

The team hopes CO2 could one day be collected for making plastics instead of being pumped into the atmosphere.

Of course, if you remove all of the CO2 from the atmostphere, all of the plants will die, and the Earth will end up looking like a watery Mars.

[Centurion2000]

IMHO...If we'd go back to paper rather than plastic and wood furniture, toys, paper grocery bags etc, instead of plastic, we'd be a lot better off. BIODEGRADABLE

Give me plastics and plenty of nuclear waste from about 1000 nuclear reactors. And CHEAP electricity.

[Lekker 1]

If we'd go back to paper rather than plastic and wood furniture, toys, paper grocery bags etc, instead of plastic, we'd be a lot better off. BIODEGRADABLE

and start producing cellulose efficiently via the hemp plant versus inefficient means currently used.

[hosepipe]

Lots of orange peel in the orange juice industry.. and I mean LOTS of it..

[ml/nj]

the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide? CO₂ is a common naturally occurring compound. It has nothing to do with greenhouses.

ML/NJ

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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[KansasConservative1]

"The researchers used a helper molecule, or catalyst..."

Let me guess. The helper molecule that they continue to avoid naming... a hydrocarbon molecule??? Is'nt it amazing the they don't even name the "helper molecule" because it would blow their story out of the water.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[King Prout]

um...

how much plastic mass from how much biomass, please?

I mean, this is interesting, but if it pans out like ethanol it will not be economically/agriculturally viable as an alternative source for even a small fraction of the mass of plastics used annually.

[King Prout]

unlikely.

catalytic agents are usually heavy metals.

in plastics, that is often Platinum.

[oyez]

CO2 is the principal greenhouse gas caused by human activities, and is emitted by fossil fuel burning and deforestation.

More bunk. Most CO2 is generated by decaying plants.