"There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers." — H.L. Mencken
My jaw hit the floor and I thought, “If a 16-year-old can work it out, how come no one else did?”
Maybe Marks and Spencer will stop charging their customers for plastic bags, now, and focus on the more serious issue of packaging.
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May 25, 2008 at 17:43
Well..to all things there is a season….bravissimo to this child prodigy!
May 25, 2008 at 17:46
Brilliant kid, no doubt about it… great to see you over here, V
May 25, 2008 at 18:02
That is impressive!!!
May 26, 2008 at 10:03
Especially when I think of what I was doing at sixteen…
May 26, 2008 at 12:18
Huh. I was just thinking about this the other day; you know, the plastic problem. What came to mind was an engineered bacterium, but it never occurred to me to think that it might already exist in nature. That might have been because I then started thinking of storylines for what would happen in the bacterium got out of control, and how the world would look without plastics… Damn my distractibility!
Good on that kid for finding this out. This should be bigger news.
May 26, 2008 at 16:40
It’s actually rather obvious, isn’t it? But I guess the best ideas often are
Never damn distractability, mate! I love the story idea! Run with it.
Makes me kinda suspicious that it isn’t bigger news — but, then, I am at a funny age
May 26, 2008 at 17:14
Just searched for news items on this and found… three. Two from Canada, one from Thailand.
Go figure.
May 26, 2008 at 17:19
I’ve told Auntie Beeb about it, now. Let’s see what ‘appens
May 30, 2008 at 19:18
Perhaps no one else tried?
May 31, 2008 at 08:32
Quite — but when you consider that plastic is such a big issue, with lots of possible profit potential, I would have expected someone to have hit on the idea sooner. Life seldom works the way one expects, though, right?
May 31, 2008 at 18:03
for sure. So many things become “obvious” as we discover they were right in front of us all along.
July 7, 2008 at 00:06
It must be a case of “it’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it”. We’re not designing our land fill operations to shred plastic and mix the shreedded plastic with the right kind of bacteria. We can probably find a use for the end product too.
Robert
July 7, 2008 at 10:07
Time for a rethink on how we approach the problem, perhaps, Robert?
Nice of you to drop by, by the way.
September 12, 2008 at 15:05
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