Self Recycling document

2.Summary of the information my group and I have researched:

One of the main things that we researched was how to make things that are not biodegradable, biodegradable. We discovered that technology has yet not discovered a form to make things biodegradable. Even though we’ve found that there are many alternatives, one of them being plastic. The plastic we usually use is made from oil which is not biodegradable whereas there is another type made from potatoes which has a problem and it is that it becomes brittle after a week we could change this by genetically altering the seed. We also researched the speed of which things decompose, the fastest materials to decompose are paper towel (takes 2-4 weeks), apple, general paper (1-3 months), cardboard box (2 months), and wax coated milk carton (3 months). Plastic takes up to 400 years. Some of the materials that take the most time are tin cans (100 years) 450 years), plastic soda bottle (450 years), glass bottle (500 years).

3.Summary of my groups theories

I believe we have all come up will similar theories. We are trying to find alternatives to non-renewable and non-biogradable products. My theory is that with enough technology we will be able to figure out how to speed up the process of decomposition. Untill then what my ideas are that we will all use biodegradable products. People will use potatoe plastic, which decomposes in a short period of time. However since this type of plastic becomes brittle after one week, we will have to genetically alter the seed to change the process of aging.

4.SELF RECYCLING

1. 5. -http://www.ecogeek.org/biofuels/810 This source is reliable because it is an organization which gives information on eco friendly resources, it shows the process and even how to make potatoe plastic.

-http://urbanext.illinois.edu/compost/process.cfm This source is reliable because it is an eduactional site.

-http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_materials_don't_decompose This source is reliable because it takes the opinion iof many people and comes to one conclusion\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEVm-G0JXw This source is reliable becuase you can actually see what is happenig n and how to make things dissapear.

6. Source number one shows information on potatoe plastic, it tells you the ingredients used to make it like the principical one potatoe starch, water and sugar, it also shows you how you can make yoour own platic. This page also tells you the advantages of using this plastic like that it is much more ecofriendly since it decomposes in very short time. But, it also tells us that the problem is that after ba week of being made/used it becomes brittle. It also tells use a solution for this and it would be gentically changing nthe poatatoe to make its life span longer.

Source numer 2 tells us how to speed up the process of decomposition of your compost, and it gives us good ideas like adding fertilizer to speed up the decomposition of our compost. Unfourtanely this page didn't really help my reasearch since I need to figure out how to make things that don't decompose biodegradable.

Source number 3 tells me what materials don't decompose and the age span of somethings for example plastic ncn take up up to 400 years to compose

Source number 4 SHOWS me how to actually make things "dissapear" by soaking them in sulfuric acid and lighting them on fire they leave a very small piece of ash, this is very cool for my research if I can figure out how to get rid of ashes.

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7. New Theories:

1. My new theory is that when manufacturing things that are meant to be thrown out, wrappers packages etc. They will be soaked in Sulfuric acid and dried then placed under water pressurizer. Then when people will want to throw something similar to the things I mentioned they would throw it on the ground a chemical reaction will cause a small fire therefore causing the waste to "dissapear" into a tiny pile of ashes which would later be vacumed by the in wall vacum system.

2. My second new theory is sort of the same as the first but, instead of being thrown on the ground and dissapearing it would be more of a quicksand sort of dissapearing, the ground will be able to distinguish between waste and something just falling on the ground. Then under ground waste disposal will take care of desposing of the waste quickly.

New Questions:

1. How can I have the flash paper act similar without setting the item on fire.

2. How can the ground distinguish between an object just falling on the floor or trash

3.How can I make quicksand not suck in the people only trash?

New Ideas for Reasearch:

More on the flash paper how to perfect this act and make it safe for kids also

More research on how the floor will be able to suck trash in