A new group has been formed to address the growing problem of pollution from plastics.
Valparaiso University chemistry professor Julie Peller speaks to a group of environmentalists interested in addressing the problem of pollution from plastics on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Members of the group used an app to share their ideas during the meeting. Valparaiso University chemistry professor Julie Peller put the issue in perspective at a recent forum.
“We all know that plastic doesn’t decompose,” so this will be a problem for generations to come, she said. “We literally just took a drop and used the microscope type of slide and let it dry on the slide and then we viewed it with our microscope. We couldn’t get a drop of water that wasn’t full of nanoplastics already,” she said.
“We literally have a setup in our lab now where we boil water and then we condense it in the hopes of leaving all that plastic behind. I have a glass condensing tube that now has a white film around it from all that plastic,” Peller said. One solution is to refuse to use single-use plastic straws provided by restaurants and instead choose reusable straws like the ones his company sells, he said.“We need more people on board with this,” Harrington said. “We want to build this community of people that want to actually not just talk about it but actually take action.”
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