Teenager Invents Plastic Bag Made From Shrimp

Sixteen Year-Old Angelina Arora started experimenting with organic materials in order to create a plastic-like bag that would decompose faster than commercial plastic. By extracting chitin, a carbohydrate found in prawn shells, and converting the chitin into chitosan chemically, Arora mixed the new chitosan with fibroin, which is a protein found in silk cocoons, to produce a biodegradable bag that decomposes within thirty three days, a whopping one and a half million times faster than commercial plastics. Through her creation, Arora won many awards and advocates that everyone should do what they can in order to reduce waste and plastic in the environment.

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2018 at 6:13 PM

    This is an awesome step in the right direction for plastic bags. Plastic bags are used and thrown away so much, so hopefully this discovery helps cut down on the amount of waste that is put into the environment.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2018 at 6:21 AM

    I feel this is kind of ironic in a way. Like we are trying to save the sea animals and stop pollution by not using plastic bags but we are killing shrimp to make these bags that will decompose faster. I feel like there is really no win win except for using certain reusable cloth bags.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 26, 2018 at 6:57 PM

    I agree with Emily in that this is an ironic practice because the purpose of creating new products that produce less waste or decompose faster is to decrease negative human impacts on other species and the environment. Killing animals in order to obtain this goal is more of a redirection of the problem. Instead of dealing with polluting animal habitats, we are now killing the animals in order to produce consumer goods.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2018 at 11:50 AM

    I also agree with Emily. Although it is great they are giving an effort to step in the right direction, unless we are using naturally deceased shrimp, then we are just killing off their breed. I feel like there would not be enough of their shells or the materials found in their shells to make so many of these bags.

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2018 at 8:52 AM

    This is so cool, especially since it was only a 16 year old girl. She should expand her research and experiment more along these lines.

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