Is there a way that plastic in trash can be disintegrated? I heard current research is going on to make corn based plastics to make water bottles. While this might be a decent step forward, we all know there is an enormous amount of plastic debris out there in trash, landfills and I heard in the oceans! Does anyone know if a way has been found to disintegrate these into lower organic compounds. Even though plastics are organic compounds I understand they are very complex compounds and so far no chemical/ other agent has been found that will degrade these.

Of late, I see a lot of people rightfully are realizing that the earth needs to be treated better. But how are humans going to get rid of the plastic debris they have thrown onto the earth so far????

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7 months ago

Thanks for the responses so far. Yes, lot of recycling, reuse and sparing use needs to be discussed. New bio-degradable materials have to used in future. My question is has a discovery been made to degrade or disintegrate the existing plastics trash in the world. There must be a process to break these down to lower hydrocarbons!!!!! Humans need to find it sometime in the next few decades...

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I agree-what about using them for roadfways etc? With so many cars and other vehicles around-or building materials, rather than make new...

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Among the answers I got your answer gave a solution. This is a good intermediate step. Long term we need to find a way to disintegrate plastics... their non-biodegradability which made them durable has become the problem in today%26#039;s world.

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