It's Tea Time

Thought this was pretty cool.

Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.

After all, we produce 500 billion of them a year worldwide, and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the ocean and kill the animals that eat them.

Now a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster -- in three months, he figures.

I imagine this will open some doors that have been long closed. It's not as if there is a large amount of data on the subject just yet, but I'm curious to see where this all goes. Exciting stuff, and only 16 years old. You go kid.