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Plastic-eating Bugs-Can Bacteria Break Down Plastic Bottles? The Science Squad
Title
Plastic-eating Bugs-Can Bacteria Break Down Plastic Bottles? [electronic resource] : The Science Squad / Network Ireland Television.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : Network Ireland Television, [2013]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : distributed by Infobase, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (1 video file (4 min., 18 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Part of the series, The Science Squad.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 12, 2015.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description (Infobase, October 1 2015).
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Ireland is among the highest waste producers in Europe. Our waste every year would fill Croke Park to the top of the stands! Thankfully we've moved quickly from a position of almost total reliance on landfill to a high level of recovery of certain recyclable materials, however plastic bottles have a low recycling value and a lot of these bottles (which are often non-biodegradable) end up in landfills forever. So how can we convert that waste into something that is valuable? Kevin O'Connor at UCD may have the answer, with new technology that uses a combination of chemistry to break down plastic bottles and bacteria to convert the breakdown product to a biodegradable plastic.
Variant and related titles
Can Bacteria Break Down Plastic Bottles?
Science Squad
Films on demand.
Other formats
digital transfer of (manifestation): Network Ireland Television, 2013.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
6-12.
Contents
Recycling Progress (1:02)
Biodegrading Plastic Process (1:21)
Biodegradable Plastic Products (0:51)
Biodegradable Technology Future (0:52)
Credits: Plastic-eating Bugs-Can Bacteria Break Down Plastic Bottles?: The Science Squad (0:04)
Videorecording number
58187 Infobase
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Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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