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by the way.........Ive seen some prety damn absurd threads in this forum, but this one is particularly retarded.
That would mean that they'd have to be creative people....But they're not.
All they're good for is retreadding thoroughly discredited Luddite and Mlthusian doom-and-gloomery.
biodegradable pollution like those new Sun Chip bags. Used motor oil could used for sun tan oil and old tires could be melted down and made into playground equipment or rubber bullets for prison gaurds.
biodegradable pollution like those new Sun Chip bags. Used motor oil could used for sun tan oil and old tires could be melted down and made into playground equipment or rubber bullets for prison gaurds.
Old tires can be recycled into several things. Rubber mulch, rubber mats, Mud flaps for trucks, etc. And the steel in them can be recycled as well.
If we could just find something to recycle useless politicians into besides lobbyists....
I rest my case.That would mean that they'd have to be creative people....But they're not.
All they're good for is retreadding thoroughly discredited Luddite and Mlthusian doom-and-gloomery.
Yea, those darn scientists. Terrible people. Do nothing. Contribute nothing. Unlike the right wing.
biodegradable pollution like those new Sun Chip bags. Used motor oil could used for sun tan oil and old tires could be melted down and made into playground equipment or rubber bullets for prison gaurds.
biodegradable pollution like those new Sun Chip bags. Used motor oil could used for sun tan oil and old tires could be melted down and made into playground equipment or rubber bullets for prison gaurds.
Scientist should, are you speaking of the 96% of all scientist that are nothing more than glorified University professors. These scientist should lose a 100% of all tax payer funding. What is the last great innovation or advance in science a government funded classroom gave us. I look around my house and see no contribution of social scientist providing me with a higher standard of living, the opposite exists, I have no flat screen TV because my tax money pays for Democrat University professors calling themselves Scientists and those who blindly pray that they save their souls.
Melting tires? We should examine the impact of that on the environment, that is called burning correct, ever catch a tire on fire, it does not melt like chocolate first, it literally catches on fire and burns, and it burns hot and furious with huge clouds of black smoke.
In Europe I believe they ad tires to asphalt.
Six months into their two-year project, the research team has managed to create a thin, clear prototype using chitosan, a material found in the shells of many crustaceans. "If commercialized, this could really help us decrease our waste ... and it could help us improve our food exports because the plastic has antimicrobial and antibacterial properties," Irene Samy, a professor overseeing the project, told Reuters. The researchers buy unwanted shrimp shells from restaurants, supermarkets and local fishermen at cheap prices.
Assistant professor Irene Samy and researcher Marwa Faisal work on their project to create biodegradable plastic bags from shrimp shells, a project in collaboration with Nottingham University, at the Nile University in Cairo, Egypt
Using shrimp shells is more sustainable because it could replace synthetic materials used in plastics and cut the amount of biowaste produced by the Egyptian food industry, Samy said. The shells are cleaned, chemically treated, ground and dissolved into a solution that dries into thin films of plastic, a technique the team says has potential for large-scale industrial production. "Egypt imports around 3,500 tonnes of shrimp, which produce 1,000 tonnes of shells as waste. ... Instead of throwing the shells away, we can make biodegradable plastic bags," Hani Chbib, a researcher on the project, told Reuters.
The project is a collaboration between the Nile University team of four and another research group at the University of Nottingham in Britain, where Samy conducted her post-doctoral research and first started experimenting with the idea. The team has only produced small samples and the project is not yet ready to go into commercial production, but the team is working hard to develop properties that would allow the material to go into widespread use. "We are continuing to work on enhancing its properties, like thermal stability and durability," Samy said.
Egyptian Researchers Turn Shrimp Shells into Biodegradable Plastic
The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or KP, launched the four-year project with a goal of planting 1 billion trees by the end of 2018, hoping it would "turn the tide on land degradation and loss" in a formerly forested province in the Hindu Kush mountain range. Officials and leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI, party — which rules the province — gathered Thursday in the national capital of Islamabad to mark the progress in what is officially dubbed the "Billion Tree Tsunami," or BTT.
The party chief, Imran Khan, former cricket-star-turned politician, told the gathering the tree-planting initiative has provided employment to "500,000 people in remote mountainous regions where finding livelihood opportunities is extremely difficult." Jobs are an important part of the program in impoverished KP, home to 40 percent of Pakistan's forests, because people cut down trees to sell the timber. Khan said the project is vital "from an environmental conservation and climate-change mitigation and adaptation viewpoint."
Wide-ranging benefits
Provincial officials say thousands of private nurseries have been created after proper training for procuring hundreds of millions of seedlings, while BTT has also helped improve livelihoods of people associated with scores of existing nurseries in KP. The provincial government says it also employed people to protect the forests, which discourage the timber mafia. The nearly $300-million plan is being funded through the provincial government budget, as well as profits from timber confiscated from illegal loggers in the country.
Experts associated with the tree-planting campaign say the drive also is expected to boost water reserves in increasingly parched Pakistan, reduce soil erosion and flooding, and enhance agricultural production. It also will increase the forested area from 20 percent to 22 percent in a country with Asia's highest rate of deforestation.
Global effort
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the only province or sub-national entity to be inducted in the Bonn Challenge. Set up in 2011, the Bonn Challenge calls for the restoration of 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2020. More than 20 countries so far have responded to the challenge, expressing an ambition to restore more than 60 million hectares by 2020, with more commitments expected.
Pakistani Province Grows 750 Million Trees
