Leveraging Duckweed for a More Sustainable and Scalable Bioplastic
What do shoes, tea bags, T-shirts, and mobile phones have in common? It may come as a surprise that they all contain plastic, and it is not unlikely that most of the items you use in your everyday life contain plastic as well. There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean with an addition of 8 million pieces every day, and at this rate, we could be left with more plastic than fish in the ocean by the year 2050. I’m a 15-year-old passionate about sustainability, and I have the goal of playing a role in transforming the way we manufacture plastic. Plastic pollution is not news to us; we...