The Engineering of A Biodegradable and Edible Material to Decrease the Percentage of Plastic in Our Oceans | Avery Allard, Jenna Persaud, Laila Rivera (me) | STEM | May 29, 2019

Purpose/Design Statement: Decrease the number of plastic in our oceans, while still benefiting the aquatic life by providing a biodegradable and edible alternative that is nutritious for marine life.

Project Results: Our goal was to create a biodegradable and edible plastic that would provide a better alternative to the plastic we use now. We were able to successfully make a material that degrades in water much faster than the competitors at a brewery that claims to have biodegradable rings for a 6 pack of beer. Our results (shown below) show a graph with the progression of our rings that we created versus the brewery's rings that had been soaking in water in the course of 14 days. We also provided pictures of how both materials progressed in those 14 days, and by the end, our ring had almost completely disappeared while the competitor's ring had kept its shape.

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