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[–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

With plasma.

Saved you a click. The article is still good, though.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So, burning it?

    Weren't there some plastic eating bacteria too?.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It seems like they are still researching the actual effect but it's sounds more that it's breaking the chemical bonds apart by using electrical energy on concentrated areas of the chemical. My hypothesis is that it's like how electrolysis breaks the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen in water.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This sounds promising. Wish we could do something about microplastics as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    it's like how they finally figured out who mr Swirl was...seems like plasma and pfas woulda been tested long ago but, hey, steps forward are to be rewarded.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    “There are new ones being put on the market each year,” says Timothy Strathmann, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

    Any chance we could, you know, stop doing this immediately?

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