The document presents a project to develop biodegradable straws made from corn rachis, the part of corn cob normally discarded as waste. Plastic straws are a major source of ocean pollution, with 8 million tons of plastic dumped into seas annually. Straws specifically take over 200 years to degrade. The project aims to offer an eco-friendly straw alternative that also utilizes corn rachis, reducing two types of environmental waste.
The document presents a project to develop biodegradable straws made from corn rachis, the part of corn cob normally discarded as waste. Plastic straws are a major source of ocean pollution, with 8 million tons of plastic dumped into seas annually. Straws specifically take over 200 years to degrade. The project aims to offer an eco-friendly straw alternative that also utilizes corn rachis, reducing two types of environmental waste.
The document presents a project to develop biodegradable straws made from corn rachis, the part of corn cob normally discarded as waste. Plastic straws are a major source of ocean pollution, with 8 million tons of plastic dumped into seas annually. Straws specifically take over 200 years to degrade. The project aims to offer an eco-friendly straw alternative that also utilizes corn rachis, reducing two types of environmental waste.
journal Science, eight million tons of plastic debris are dumped into the seas every year. Straws are the seventh most polluting element and take more than 200 years to biodegrade. This project aims to offer an environmentally friendly alternative to produce straws and also seeks to take advantage of a material that is normally One of the plastic products that generate the discarded; the corn rachis of the corn or the most commonly called tusa. In this way, two contamination are plastic straws, according to wastes that impact the environment, can be Time (2016), in the US In one day left behind. produce 500 million, are very toxic and resistant as they are made of polypopidrene, which takes 1,000 to degrade years. According to El Colombiano (2016) about 267 species are being threatened by the intake of this product, as this causes them obstruction in different parts of your bodies. A way to fight the generation plastic is to use biodegradable material, being the corn rachis i from the cob an option possible, which is generated as waste and not takes advantage. .