subsearobot: I cannot understand why you insist not misrepresenting what I said (as anyone can see by looking at the thread).
The gyres are not floating islands of plastic. That is proven beyond doubt and the evidence was presented https://plasticsparadox.com/plastics-soup-myths/
There are areas...
Plastics flow even at really low force. As a rule of thumb, a plastic part should be designed to experience no more than 1/4 of the nominal yield stress.
https://www.engineeringclicks.com/yield-strength-of-plastics/
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Rick is correct. The polymer yields well before that point.
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PE and PP are the most common plastics. They are hydrocarbons that burn with the same energy output as oil and as cleanly. It's all in the book with proof.
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You're correct TugboatEng. They have proven that mixed plastics give as much heat energy as oil or coal and they they burn cleanly. It's all shown with proof in the book for free but saplanti would rather ignore the evidence. It's a shame.
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saplanti - you said we need to reuse and reycle. Yes, it says that in the book and on the website.
It is hard to make a profit recycling plastics because they are so cheap. Ironically, they are so cheap because they are so green (low energy, water etc used to make them).
Plastics are about 10%...
In the book The Plastics Paradox I quote Winston Churchill who said "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time..."
The same can be said of plastics.
There is no perfect material, so we have to...
saplanti - I did answer. Plastics save fossil fuel, reduce waste and reduce CO2. What is your point? Our modern lifestyle creates waste and plastics massively reduce that compared to using other materials so why demonize plastics? If we want to avoid waste altogether, then we need to give up our...
Hello saplanti,
Plastics actually reduce fossil fuel usage. Other materials take several times more energy to produce and that comes from fossil fuels. Only considering the fossil fuel used as a raw material leads to a false conclusion.
LCA shows that using plastics usually causes least...
Hello Horacio,
Plastics do degrade, that's why they spend $2BN a year on stabilizers. We want them made more stable because table materials are proven greener by LCA.
My point is that we've been lied to that they take 1000 years to degrade and that we should hate plastics because they never...
Plastics are proven to massively reduce waste and shown on the website and in the book. It takes 3-4lb of other material to replace 1lb of plastic.
That means that replacing plastic would not be a smart move.
Plastics are proven to usually be the greenest option meaning that peer-reviewed LCA...
You're right TugboatEng. They do use scrubbers and it works really well.
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Hello IRstuff,
I don't think you would feel that way if you really spent time on the site or read the book. Everything is 100% true and in perspective.
I didn't say that normal plastic parts degrade instantly. What I said is that they degrade as a similar speed to other materials so demonizing...
Hello IRstuff - companies use the minimum amount of stabilizer possible, so, as I said a part will degrade at about the same rate as a piece of wood the same size. A PE grocery bag in under one year.
It's important to note, as explained in the book and website, that we don't want materials to...
Hello IRstuff. Good to see you again! Thank you TugboatEnd and hello saplanti,
The NGOs claim that plastics take 500 or 1000 years to degrade but they quote no evidence because there is not a single scientific paper to support that notion.
I'm not claiming that they degrade instantly but I am...
Hello saplanti,
Your comments are not relevant to the discussion. I made several statements and proved all of them. You utter slurs without proof or substance.
If you care about the environment then I really do suggest that you prove it by looking at the evidence. See this video to know who...
Hello horacio Torres,
Your statement is incorrect. See the scientific proof here if you're interested to learn https://plasticsparadox.com/do-plastics-last-forever/
All the best,
Chris
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Hi saplanti,
Thank you for posting. All I can say is that your current views are not supported by the scientific evidence. There are literally thousands of peer-reviewed articles by professional scientists proving that you are wrong.
The proof is here...
Hello seplanti - I'm told that I have the largest collection of science on this at well over 2000 peer-reviewed articles. I hope you visit the website and watch the video to see who misled us and why.
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Hope some of you read the book or at the very least watch this short video. You will shocked about the lies we've been told, who told them and why: https://youtu.be/wXvoVAE9ESE
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