Plastic degrades

There is a teenager of name Daniel Burd. He solved a problem that was there on the wall for decades and others just sat on it.

Bio-degradation of Plastic.

As if a word from God Himself, we assumed the word from text books that plastic takes thousands of years to degrade as true. This guy had guts to not believe it. He found microbs that do this to degree of 50% in 6 weeks time, with only water and miniscude CO2 as by-product. You can read more of his systematic report at http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/WWSEF/08Awards/08BurdReport.pdf.