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Remember the article where a 16 year old Canadian teenager found out a way to disintegrate plastic bags in 3 months? Well this time round, two students from Indonesia, Vici Riyani and Adrienne Trinovia Sulistyo, have found a waste treatment solution for styrofoam.

It would normally take a plastic bag about 1000 years to fully disintegrate but things could change now. It can now take as little as 3months for a plastic bag to decompose.
According to TheRecord, Daniel Burd, a 16 year old Canadian teenager has found a way to do this. How did he do it? First, [...]