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| Ag8n | "In this area of Ohio many municipalities use water wells to serve the local cities. As the demand for the municipal water increases, private wells..." | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Check out " Turning off the plastic" by Patrick Walter. It's a good read. He has an editorial in the 30 March 2022 edition of Chem World. He m..." | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "To quote you "Studies show that the only plausible solution is to start by reducing the production and use plastics period." Interesting. Please g..." | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Just to make sure you understand. i think the amount of waste is much higher than what is listed. Proving it? That will be very difficult. " | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "I'd like to compliment you. That is a very nice lab. Any oil spill that can be stopped (such as the gulf oil spills), should be. From working in..." | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "I need to give further explanation. I'm recovering from cancer, now. Without the polymer based medical devices giving the nasty chemicals, that w..." | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "How will the general public be convinced? Right now, there are many plastic plants in the US employing thousands of people. That is before We menti..." | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "And that's just going down a few of the paths the Dr. Has suggested. The other testing discussed will be expensive also. While the testing is pro..." | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Yes, it does vary by locations. The different pvc plants will often get powdered pvc in and mix it get the compound they want. So the railroad tra..." | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Very interesting video. I don't know what the instruments cost is now. In the late 90s, a microscope FTIR, with ATR and libraries for analysis of..." | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Your work is very impressive. And it seems like you are just a step away from identification. I wish I knew the exact step needed. The pellets a..." | Read more » | almost 3 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "It was a very interesting article! Thank you for submitting it. The microscope FTIR he mentions ran our lab $100k in the early 90s. That was for..." | Read more » | almost 3 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "The IR listed above stands for Infra-Red spectroscopy. It might also be FTIR ( Fourier Transform Infra Red spectrscopy). The NIR is short for Near..." | Read more » | about 3 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "There are commercial plastic recyclers. Please contact them for details. And my experience is in industry, not environmental. But... To get the ..." | Read more » | about 3 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Most of these pellets are usually circular, at least around here. Those pellets are hexagonal. It might make it easier to search for the company ..." | Read more » | about 3 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Where does incineration rate on the list? " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Try: Https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=elZlWSj7jlg The company is LLA out of Germany. They say the particles can go down to 3 mm in size. Looks lik..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "I checked youtube. There are videos of cameras separating all kinds of plastics with NIR. That is PE , PS, PVC, and a bunch of others. So the ap..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "I worked with medical devices, which is different from the microplastics you are after. For example, if we had plastics in a liquid, I would take ..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "That is dehydrohalogenation. " | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "The process that polyvinyl chloride ( PVC) degrades by is hehydrohalogenation. First, one double bond is formed, then a second conjugated with the..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "I can help with analyzing microscopic plastic particles, but not microplastics. Let's start with most expensive and go to least expensive. For R&a..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago |