{"id":275,"date":"2007-05-21T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=275"},"modified":"2007-05-21T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T12:40:34","slug":"dissolvableplastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/dissolvableplastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissolvable Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite “podcasts”:http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Podcasts,<\/a> “60-Second Science”:http:\/\/sciam.com\/podcast\/<\/a> (available at “Scientific American”:http:\/\/sciam.com\/<\/a> and “iTunes”:http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/download\/),<\/a> spoke about research being conducted by the “University of Southern Mississippi”:http:\/\/www.usm.edu\/index.php<\/a> to make stretch wrap plastic that is dissolvable in saltwater. In a nutshell, by incorporating “hydrophilic molecules”:http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com\/articles\/technical\/hydrophilic.html<\/a> like “carboxylic acid”:http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carboxylic_acid<\/a> into the plastic, the saltwater can break it down within 5 months to CO2<\/sub> and water. The US military is funding the project so that on-board storage of plastic waste can be reduced by safely dumping it overboard after some minor preparations. For a more complete run-through of the application and hurdles of this research, please check out “this article”:http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/news\/040307\/news0403071.html<\/a> from “sciencefriday.com”:http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite “podcasts”:http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Podcasts,<\/a> “60-Second Science”:http:\/\/sciam.com\/podcast\/<\/a> (available at “Scientific American”:http:\/\/sciam.com\/<\/a> and “iTunes”:http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/download\/),<\/a> spoke about research being conducted by the “University of Southern Mississippi”:http:\/\/www.usm.edu\/index.php<\/a> to make stretch wrap plastic that is dissolvable in saltwater. In a nutshell, by incorporating “hydrophilic molecules”:http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com\/articles\/technical\/hydrophilic.html<\/a> like “carboxylic acid”:http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carboxylic_acid<\/a> into the plastic, the saltwater can break it down within 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[128,237],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-environment","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}