Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Semester 3 week 6

My grinding of plastics has ground to a stop. Another group of students also need to grind plastics for their projects so as we share the equipment we are on standby until they have completed their part. This allows for us to minimize the risk of cross contamination between plastics. Allowing for proper cleaning between each plastic type and for each person to get time to grind for their project. Once they have completed grinding their PVC I will resume grinding my plastic type 5 and collect that sample. Predicted date for my grinding to resume is somewhere in the next week or so, I will begin grinding plastic number 5 and then take a look at our collection of samples to determine what we need or if I may proceed with my research. The sample size collected of plastic type 5 was roughly 56 grams. I am currently looking into a reliable source of plastic type number 1.  Related image

1 comment:

  1. Hey Bryan, avoiding cross-contamination when it comes to plastic is the best thing to do, especially at such a ground level. You mentioned that around fifty-six thousand grams of plastic type 5 were collected, how many grams are you shooting for? Also, finding plastic type number 1 shouldn’t be a hard job, soft drink and water bottle plastics are all examples of type 1 plastics.

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