Neptune Plastics

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Neptune is honored to have been chosen as a 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner!

Congrats to Marx Acosta, Grant Christensen & Hal Jones from BYU for winning the 2020 “Use it!” Lemelson-MIT ! They designed a plastic bag, helping to eliminate from the . Read more about them here! https://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/marx-acosta-rubio-grant-christensen-and-hal-jones.

It’s Earth day, so here’s a 4.543 billion year bday to the apple of our eye, and our muse, Earth. Ya don’t look a day over... uh.. 4.542 billion years?
Anyway, here pictured is the Great Barrier Reef from the international space station. Quite a picturesque reason why a clean earth matters 💚
We’re curious, comment your favorite place on Earth you’ve ever been, or want to visit!

Thank you for participating in our go green virtual 5k! We hope that you will continue to recognize the difference even one person can make by being more conscious about the environment.

Our Neptune bio-based plastic packaging is derived from plant waste — something that would otherwise end up in a landfill.
We are defining a new standard: no industrial composting required, no microplastics left behind, and no layering with petroleum products. Happy earth month!

Social distancing?

Stay tuned for ideas on how you can go green from home (or wherever you are quarantined)!

“Microplastics are raining down from the sky.⠀
Scientists discover large amounts of tiny plastic particles falling out of the air in a remote mountain location.”⠀
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“Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic waste. Their presence in oceans and waterways has received a great deal of scientific and media attention in recent years. However, only two previous studies have looked for the presence of microplastics in the air. Both were in cities and their results were comparable, says Allen. Microplastics in the air appear to be ubiquitous.⠀
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If you go outside with a UV light, set at a wavelength of 400 nanometers, and shine it sideways you’ll see all kinds of plastic particles in the air fluoresce,” she said. “It’s almost worse indoors. It’s all a bit terrifying.”⠀
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“Microplastics are raining down from the sky.⠀ Scientists discover large amounts of tiny plastic particles falling out of the air in a remote mountain location.”⠀ ⠀ ⠀ “Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic waste. Their presence in oceans and waterways has received a great deal of scientific and media attention in recent years. However, only two previous studies have looked for the presence of microplastics in the air. Both were in cities and their results were comparable, says Allen. Microplastics in the air appear to be ubiquitous.⠀ ⠀ If you go outside with a UV light, set at a wavelength of 400 nanometers, and shine it sideways you’ll see all kinds of plastic particles in the air fluoresce,” she said. “It’s almost worse indoors. It’s all a bit terrifying.”⠀ ⠀ @nationalgeographic

Its not too late to sign up! Make a difference with us today!

https://byuneptuneplastics.wixsite.com/gogreenrace/pledges-1

Join our virtual 5k and help us save the environment! Its going on all throughout March! Sign up and make a difference!

https://byuneptuneplastics.wixsite.com/gogreenrace

There are a lot of different small things we can all do to make a difference! Neptune Plastics is hosting a “go green” virtual 5K that has nothing to do with running and everything to do the planet. Sign up to make three small changes in the month of March, each change completes one mile! NO CHARGE, JUST CHANGE! Sign up here/ at https://byuneptuneplastics.wixsite.com/gogreenrace

Thailand recently became one of the few bold countries to commit to ban single use plastics. Here are some creative ways people are compensating.
What do you think? Would a ban be in our country’s best interests? Let us know what you think in the comments!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/world/asia/china-plastic.html

China Says It Will Ban Plastics That Pollute Its Land and Water Though likely to be welcomed by many Chinese who worry about pollution, the measures could be a hard sell for a society used to convenience.

What are you passionate about? Pollution? Climate change? Gender equality? Mental health?
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Today in a class on social impact and innovation at the , we discussed or the ‘Fear Of No Impact’. The main thing I pondered was that if we’re driven and motivated, no matter what our passion is, we are fully capable to make a change!

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a 1.6 million square kilometer patch of plastic accumulated by ocean currents. If one was to pick up each individual piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage patch they would have to pick out about 1.8 trillion pieces. This would be ten times more plastic pieces than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The patch formed as massive ocean currents have pushed plastic waste from Asia, Australia, and the Americas into large vortexes of plastic west and east of Hawaii. Much of the plastic in the pacific will continue to cycle through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch until it decomposes in up to 600 years. This means that it won’t decompose until our great, great, great, great, great, great grandchild is born. Until that time the garbage patch will continue to grow exponentially. Every year it alarmingly gets ten times larger than the year before. Experts actually predict that by the year 2050, the total amount of plastic in the ocean will outweigh all the world’s fish. Contrary to popular belief the patch isn’t a giant floating island of garbage. This is because it is spread across an area twice the size of Texas. What’s more is that many of the plastic has been broken down into small pieces called microplastics. Cancer causing microplastics can be extremely detrimental to animal and human health. This means that these microplastics can easily find their way into the stomachs of marine life, and eventually our stomachs as we eat fish.

How Can We Help?

Here at Neptune Plastics we have developed a plant-based polymer plastic that dissolves in water within an hour. It’s strong, it’s durable, and behaves just like normal plastic under typical conditions. What’s more is that because our plastic is 100% plant based, it is technically edible just in case it is accidentally eaten by wildlife. Many other “biodegradable” plastics already exist, however most of these products simply break down into smaller pieces, and some are even more harmful to the environment than regular plastic. Neptune Plastics is the first real solution to the plastic epidemic in our oceans. Join us in the revolution against the plastic that plagues our beautiful earth. Learn more at neptuneplastics.co.

Our community cleanup was a success! Collectively we filled many trash bags with litter along the river of Provo Canyon. Not only is Neptune preventing future plastic pollution, we are cleaning up past pollution too! Everyone that came was involved in a cause that truly matters.

Our community clean up event in partnership with is tomorrow at 10:30am! Please come and help us clean Canyon View park in Provo Canyon and to learn how we can eliminate plastic pollution! Donuts will be provided.