One day last week I was in chemistry class and we were learning about polar and nonpolar chemicals. To help us better understand how polar and nonpolar chemicals interact with other chemicals, Mrs.Wenzel did a mini experiment. Stryofoam is a nondegradable material that builds up over time in landfills. Acetone, gasoline, kerosene and etc. are nonpolar chemicals and can break down stryfoam. These chemicals if concentrated well enough can not affected the human body and can be used to recylce styrofoam materials. If we were able to think of this in high school, why hasn't this been used to help our land fills out. Doing this could be a BIG help for our pollution levels and could change out future. Tonight when I meet with my sponsor I am going to present this information with her and hopefully spread my information with the world. I figured I have to start small first and then I will eventually get some where with this. There is no reason to have this knowledge and not do anything about it. I hope my plan works out and I can get this going making it a law. It's amazing what you can find out!
Great question. If this information is available to high school students, why hasn't somebody with the right resources harnessed the technology to do something. I suspect there are some roadblocks. It's up to you to find them out, and perhaps come up with feasible solutions.
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