Water related diseases cause 3.4 million deaths each year. We are being “tsunamied” by plastic pollution, from Guatemala to Romania and everywhere in between. According to The Microplastics Initiatives of Adventure Scientists’ globally, “microplastics are accumulating at a higher rate in marine systems(89% of samples contained microplastic pollution) than in freshwater systems (51% of samples contained microplastic pollution). Microplastic contamination is ubiquitous across remote sample locations in both marine (including polar regions) and freshwater systems (including in glaciers around the world and the headwaters of the Missouri River).”
Microplastics also travels by air, reaching major population centers. "11,400 pieces of microplastic per square meter per month, on average contaminate our water.” A 2017 study found that 83 percent of tap water samples collected globally, including 94 percent of USA samples, proved microplastic contaminated. USA had the highest rate of contamination.
Large plastic pollution (the origin of microplastic pandemic) killed a sperm whale found on Sardinia. It had 48 pounds of plastic in its stomach, including microplastics mixed in with a corrugated plastic tube and shopping bags.
Microplastics must be removed for any city to be fully healthy and future-viable- Siya’s micro plastic restaurant offers an answer.
Who are we serving?
Everyone on earth is affected by microplastic--
“Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland sampled 11 locations along roughly 500 miles of the river’s surface from Basel to Rotterdam. Everywhere they dipped they found plastic—beads, shards, and fibers, in concentrations as dense as 3.9 million pieces per square kilometer.”
A time bomb waiting to explode for every living thing on this planet.
“... 191 million plastic particles (flow into) the North Sea, and that only takes into account the surface particles. Even though, in terms of weight, this only corresponds to roughly 25 to 30 kilos a day, this adds up to 10 tons a year. Each one of these billions of plastic items can be ingested by organisms and have negative effects on their health.”
Siya’s microplastic restaurant addresses and solves this problem. Removing microplastics from the food chain will promote better health and take a tremendous burden from the health care system.
The second phase of our project creates an orca restaurant made of Ideonella sakaiensis and the microplastic eating fungi, Aspergillus tubingensis. These restaurants would be positioned all over the city. While the orcas are eating the microplastics other people in the restaurants are eating.
What is my solution?
It has to float.
Has to be durable.
Can’t hurt anything in the water or at the shoreline.
We are building a non-invasive system to destroy microplastics
Our human and aquatic friendly solar powered dolphin is made up of:a body of plastic eating Aspergillus tubingensis and Ideonella sakaiensis which can help stop the spread of contagious and potentially deadly illnesses in overcrowded cities all over the world.
Our solution that will cleanse and purify all bodies of water and also solve the threat from RWI’s.
Siya’s Micro Plastic Restaurant (no reservations required) combines the bacteria Ideonella sakaiensis and the plastic eating fungi, Aspergillus tubingensis. In approximately two months Aspergillus tubingensis can biodegrade polyester polyurethane (PU) into smaller pieces and then eventually disappear(all gone bye bye!).
Siya’s Micro Plastic Restaurant is dolphin shaped (with Siya’s micro plastic restaurant written on each of its sides) and solar powered (on its back). It is mobile and will navigate anywhere in the city where the people have a connection to water. It will be constantly absorbing plastic and micro plastic. It's a combination of bacteria and fungi which will be incorporated into its whole body, absorbing microplastic in the air and water.
It will be a moving plastic eating machine.
Fungi and bacteria can coexist and interact in a variety of environments. This may be the very first time these two plastic eaters have been combined.
What makes this solution innovative.
Combining two effective bacteria and fungi to eat microplastic is a novel design. If this can be used in urban populations it will provide a safe environment for future life.
The core technology that my solution utilizes.
The bacteria-- Ideonella sakaiensis and the fungi--Aspergillus tubingensis
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