A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam
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From packing peanuts to disposable coffee cups, each year the US alone produces some two billion pounds of Styrofoam -- none of which can be recycled. Frustrated by this waste of resources and landfill space, Ashton Cofer and his science fair teammates developed a heating treatment to break down used Styrofoam into something useful.
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Prakash Muralidhar
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Styrofoam other uses rather than using it as activated carbon in water filter
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Kaylee Smith
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i think that turning it into a activated carbon is very smart and usefull
Henna Muñoz
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in response to Joseph Rich Show comment
Turning Styrofoam into into active carbon is a great idea because it could really help the Earth. It is a very smart idea because it can even help the animals. It is also very unique.
Henna Muñoz
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Turning Styrofoam into activated carbon is a great idea but I believe that you should try to make Styrofoam have other uses. Active carbon is a great idea because it can help with the pollution but it should have other uses like a reusable bag. I think this because we use plastic bags and we use a lot of Styrofoam so we should try to make it reusable like a bag. Ashton is doing the right thing but he could help the world even more. That is how Ashton and his team can help even more.
Joseph Rich
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i think that turning it into a activated carbon is very smart and usefull
Joseph Swick
Joseph Swick
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in response to jimmy kim Show comment
I think making styrafoam into activated carbon is a great idea
jimmy kim
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he is trying to make Styrofoams more useful because its causing a problem to the beach and the whole earth with is really bad. What he did was he was thinking out of the square witch means using his brain in a different way
