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Monday, November 7, 2016

As the skies shift from blues to greys.!

Growing air pollution does scare us ... Doesn't it?

As we all know, air pollution is the most deadliest form of pollution among them all. According to WHO  ( World Health Organization ), every 9 out of 10 people live in places where air pollution exceeds the safe limits. I know that sounds scary, but yes facts are meant to be spoken.
So, what does the growing CO₂ in the atmosphere & the alarming rise in the global amount of plastic consumption indicate ? So, what's the connection between growing CO₂ levels & plastic consumption? Well, here's the answer. For the past 13 years ( yes since 2003 ), Newlight Technologies have  been working on main aim of moving plastic out of the world on a global scale. Though, plastic has been the workhorse of modern economy it has to be reduced in terms of consumption.
Graphical data on
Plastic production


See the alarming increase in plastic production ?  What did Newlight Technologies come up with as a possible solution ? The answer is AirCarbon, the perfect plastic alternate but much better in terms of durability, also is it cheaper, greener ,& stronger. What is AirCarbon made up of?
It is made from pollution! Yes, it is made from captured carbon ( the same widely known ancient molecule ) but, AirCarbon ( basically a thermoplastic ) is much better than plastic since it is totally biodegradable ( unlike plastic ) & can also be moulded into different shapes  ( like plastic ). AirCarbon, is primarily made out of captured carbon ( methane-based carbon emissions, such as methane from dairy farms, digesters and landfills ) & the composition includes 40% Air and 60% Greenhouse gases. 
http://livingcircular.com/en/innovations/aircarbon-carbon-negative-plastic
AirCarbon, plastic but made out of Carbon
How it's made ? 
It's simple ( oh come-on, it was under the making for 13 whole dedicated years ).
Initially, the reactor completely made up of stainless steel is filled with the air & captured greenhouse gas. These both are eventually made to flow towards the bottom of the tank where they react with a specialised biocatalyst ( the role of this biocatalyst is to pull out Carbon, oxygen & hydrogen out of the gases and rearranges it's preset arrangement ). So, it's like two different constituents into a tank with a special biocatalyst, reacts, rearranges, there you go - Voila! AirCarbon is born.
Now, that AirCarbon is born... where do we apply it?
It has already been applied in various fields like in extrusion, blown film, cast film, fibre spinning, injection moulding, & the posssibilities about to be discovered are endless. In the past 15 months, Newlight tech has £74 billion of AirCarbon in off-take purchase or licensed production agreements.
While, a dozen major companies have already pooled in their contributions to get benefitted from this revolutionary material Dell have already started using this as a packaging material for their products.

One things for sure, these are so true.
“Ideas are at the core of the modern economy.”
“Being imaginative is having ideas; being creative is converting ideas into production.”


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