Plastic Bags
May 31 2008, Parul G

It’s pretty much common knowledge that plastic bags take 1000 years to decompose, if they do at all, but that fact just wasn’t good enough for 16-year-old Daniel Burd. He’s found a way to make plastic bags decompose in about three months by his...

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