Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?
Please watch the following video and answer the questions that follow:
Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmDENxTPn8Q
Questions:
1. Explain two reasons why as an Environmental
Activist you would be concerned with the high usage of Plastic and Styrofoam by the public.
2. Explain how mushrooms are helping to
transform Styrofoam that would normally sit in a landfill and is being transformed into usable
resources.
1.because it's bad for animal populated places because the animals will end up dying because they ate It. Plus there slowly killing are planet.
ReplyDelete2.they help with fire,stocking,and growth with plants also the also it can be used to absorbed.
1. As wn environmental activists i would be concerned with the high usage of plastic and styrofoam by the public because take a huge amount of energy to create and that when its time to dispose these plastic and styrofoam it is slowly killing our planet.
ReplyDelete2. Mushrooms are helping to transform styrofoam that would normally sit in a landfill and is being transported into usable resources by using mushrooms to create a new class of materials that acts a lot like plastic and that it is easy to dispose.
1. Plastic can cause cancer and its not good for the envirenment. Also styrofoam is not good.
ReplyDelete2. Its breaking it down and helping it be better for the envirenment
1. Two reasons why I should be concerned the first is that all the Plastic and Styrofoam is poisoning are earth the second reason is that is no one picks up the plastic minerals it will stay there for 100s of years.
ReplyDelete2. It's to create a new source of mineral and it's just like the plastic minerals but it's total made up of crop waste and its total re-Constable.
1. Reason one is that Styrofoam destory aquatic life, another reason is because plastic is poisoning our planet.
ReplyDelete2. Its makes its self,2 self assembled, 3 has natural polymers
1. It could get into the ocean.
ReplyDeleteIt is slowly ruining the earth.
2. One mushroom could warm our houses, and power our cars.
It could be used as glue, it is immune to fire, water, and vapor.
1. If I was an environmental activist I'd be concerned about the high use of styrofoam ,because it can't be composed and it doesn't break down so it will sit in our earth for thousands of years.
ReplyDelete2. Mushrooms make a natural 'glue' that ca be composed and won't damage the earth. It will do the same things that styrofoam does, the only problem is that it takes a bit longer.
1)As an Environmental Activist I would be concerned with the high usage of Plastic and Styrofoam by the public because it causes 20% of landfills in the United States and it also can destroy the environment by releasing toxins in to the earth and the water supply.
ReplyDelete2)Mushrooms are helping to transform Styrofoam that would normally sit in a landfill and is being transformed into usable resources by use the part of the mushroom called mycelium and by use this part it can turn waste like plastic or foam in to polymer in second and it can make the Styrofoam reusable.
1.As an activist I would be concerned because high usage of plastic and Styrofoam because they are toxic to the earth. They use up alot of landfills.
ReplyDelete2.mushrooms are helping because it is not toxic. They perform like plastic during there use but are made of crop waste and they are comspostable at the end of there lives.
1. Plastic Requires huge amounts of energy to create and because of their disposal issues, they are slowly poisoning our planet
ReplyDelete2. They are using mushrooms to create an entirely new class of materials which preform a lot like plastic during their use, and they are made from ground waists and are totally composable.
-Cyris Rodriguez
1- Plastics Require a huge amount of energy to create and because of their disposal issues, they are slowly poisoning our planet.
ReplyDelete2- They are using mushrooms to create an entirely new class of materials which preform a lot like plastic during their use, and they are made from ground waists and are totally composable.
~~~~Alex Beetan
1.The environmental activists you would be concerned with high usage because the factory conditions
ReplyDelete2. Mushrooms are helping transform styrofoam that would sit in a landfill by developing a natural cause for these
1. Two reasons i would be concerned is it affects the workers who make these also cause alot more pollution
ReplyDelete2. mushrooms are helping to transform by transforming unrecycleable stuff to chitinous polymer
Jason Zelaya
1) Plastics Require a huge amount of energy to create and because of their disposal issues, they are slowly poisoning our planet.
ReplyDelete2) They are using mushrooms to create an entirely new class of materials which preform a lot like plastic during their use, and they are made from ground waists and are totally composable.
~~~~Sevana Persaud
1. As an environmental activist this would concern me because styrofoam is bad for the earth soil it contains something that is harmful and it also doesn't disinigrate quickly it takes thousands of years for it to do so.
ReplyDelete2. Mushrooms are helping transform styrofoam that is usually in the trash into useful resources such as corner blocks used for packing which is degradable and it also doesn't contain any harmful chemicals. This material is also water resistant and it protects about almost anything.
1. Styrofoam and plastic take a lot of energy to make. Styrofoam is pod iced a lot and thrown away fast. Styrofoam can stay on earth for thousands of years if people don't get rid of it will stay there or find its way to oceans. Styrofoam as well as other plastics is hard to get rid of.
ReplyDelete2. In nature mushrooms are the recycling system. Using a part of the mushroom called mycelium, mycelium can transformed into a type of glue that can mold and shape plastic/waste that has been crushed. By using mushrooms we can recycle waste and anyone can use mushrooms to recycle.
-Alissa Cardoso
1) As an environmental activist I would be concerned with the high usage of plastic and styrofoam by the public because it would leave so much garbage for future generations and it would turn sea water hazardous.
ReplyDelete2) Mushrooms have a component called mycelium which can be used like glue. If we were to use this with other materials it would be able to replace styrofoam and plastic easily.
1.Environmental activist should be concerned because styrofoam can eventually become toxic. They're released into our oceans which can be hazardous to animals. Plastics can become toxic to our air as well. If littered it can pollute our air,water, and soil.
ReplyDelete2. Mushrooms are natures recycling system. We can use a part of the mushroom as a glue where we can make materials they can actually help the environment.
As a environmental activist I would be concerned about plastics and styrofoam because they do not compose but only get cut to smaller peices. They also have chemicals in them.
ReplyDelete2. Mushrooms are being used as an alternative for plastics they have created a material out of mushrooms that acts like plastic but decomposes.
1.they are being left on the ground and in our ocean.
ReplyDelete2.it is easier to make and get styrofoam.
ReplyDelete1.As an environmental activist I would be very concerned that we are using styrofoam in our neighborhoods because it's bad for health. I would also be concerned about plastic because it polluted on his own and has toxic chemicals .
2. Mushrooms are transforming styrofoam by creating change by transforming consciousness through billions of years .
1. As an environmental activist, I would be concerned with the high usage of Plastic and Styrofoam by the public because they can be dangerous to the ocean and also pollute the air.
ReplyDelete2. Mushrooms are helping to transform Styrofoam that would normally sit in a landfill and is being transformed into usable resources because its used like glue
Keon Mcnichols
ReplyDelete1.there being left in the ocean and becoming toxic
2. the mushrooms are transformed into styrofoam that can be used styrofoam and plastic
Keon Mcnichols
ReplyDelete1.they are being released in to the ocean and its becoming toxic
2.Mushrooms are being replaced for Styrofoam and plastic
1. Plastics Require a huge amount of energy to create and because of their disposal issues, they are slowly poisoning our planet
ReplyDelete2.Mushrooms are being used as an alternative for plastics they have created a material out of mushrooms that acts like plastic but decomposes.
1) You would have a problem with this as a environmental activist because plastic and styrofoam can't be renewed but plastic can be recycled.
ReplyDelete2) Mushrooms naturally recycle these materials .
james jacobsJuly 20, 2016 at 6:02 PM
ReplyDelete1)As an Environmental Activist I would be concerned with the high usage of Plastic and Styrofoam by the public because it causes 20% of landfills in the United States and it also can destroy the environment by releasing toxins in to the earth and the water supply.
2)Mushrooms are helping to transform Styrofoam that would normally sit in a landfill and is being transformed into usable resources by use the part of the mushroom called mycelium and by use this part it can turn waste like plastic or foam in to polymer in second and it can make the Styrofoam reusable.
1. Plastic Requires alot of energy to create and because of their disposal issues, they are slowly poisoning our planePlastic Requires huge amounts of energy to create and because of their disposal issues, they are slowly poisoning our planet.
ReplyDelete2. Mushrooms are being used an alternative for plastic and it is decompossable.
1.Creating the plastic and styrofoam is slowly poisoning out earth.
ReplyDelete2.Mushrooms take part in the recycling system although it ends up decomposing.
Its bad gor animals because they are being ate by other animals at killing the population of the species
ReplyDeleteAnd it makes it easier to het Styrofoam