Congratulations, Daniel Burd, on Your Outstanding Envrionmental Science Project
A fourteen year old Canadian student, Daniel Burd, identified the microbe that decomposes plastic bags in a few months rather that the usual 1,000 years.
The Waterloo Record reports, "...we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them.
"Now a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster -- in three months, he figures.
"Daniel Burd's project won the top prize at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa. He came back with a long list of awards, including a $10,000 prize, a $20,000 scholarship, and recognition that he has found a practical way to help the environment.
"Daniel, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, got the idea for his project from everyday life.
" 'Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have this avalanche of plastic bags falling on top of me,' he said. 'One day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bags.'
"The answer: not much. So he decided to do something himself.
The Waterloo Record reports, "...we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them.
"Now a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster -- in three months, he figures.
"Daniel Burd's project won the top prize at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa. He came back with a long list of awards, including a $10,000 prize, a $20,000 scholarship, and recognition that he has found a practical way to help the environment.
"Daniel, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, got the idea for his project from everyday life.
" 'Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have this avalanche of plastic bags falling on top of me,' he said. 'One day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bags.'
"The answer: not much. So he decided to do something himself.
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