Feeding Mealworms polystyrene
By using mealworms to eat polystrene then feed the mealworms to chickens you completely remove the plastic from the environment.
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I am passionate about: Everything alternate, housing, food production, energy. Also passionate about film and writing.
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I started out working at a small newspaper in the 70s before moving to California to pursue a film career. I was an Art Director at Disney and did effects work on Lord of the Rings. More recently I've worked as a CG modeler and animator. Most recently I've shifted to writing and I'm in the process of producing a magazine called "How We Fix This Mess". It covers topics from sustainable farming and energy as well as housing to extreme ideas like the 1000 year village, a town designed to survive and thrive with little input from the outside world.
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By using mealworms to eat polystrene then feed the mealworms to chickens you completely remove the plastic from the environment.
One approach to avoid layered materials in packaging is to blow mold a liner into a cardboard container for liquids like milk and juice.
Rollover deposits can encourage recycling without adding significant costs that can come from a traditional deposit system.
Motherjones just ran an article on feeding insects to farm animals. I've been preaching this for years. Raising mealworms using polystrene for food could remove thousands of tons of plastic waste from the waste stream and turn it into food for people, eggs, chicken, fish and pork. That seems like a better solution than attaching caps to drink bottles, better known as sports bottles. So frustrating such lame ideas made it to round two.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/08/feed-flies-factory-farm-livestock-fish/
Think in terms of pounds or better yet tons of caps to have an actual value. How is this currency? Who pays the value beyond the price of the plastic and trust me plastic isn;t worth much! It's why I suggested a lottery system but that idea didn;t make it past the first round. 18 pages of concept and some one suggesting calling caps currency beats it out. I feel so stupid right now for wasting my time on this one! Actual proposals apparently didn't stand a chance. I was told
"Ultimately, your submission was not in-scope for this particular Challenge"
and yet this was in scope? Why not say caps are worth $10 each? I'm sure most would get turned in but who pays the cost? I suggested million dollar lotteries but the costs would be spread over hundreds if not thousands of companies advertising budgets. At least that proposal explained the value and how it was to be paid for. What did they just pull the first round winners out of a hat?
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