“Recycling Styrofoam is too expensive and potentially contaminated, but what if we could keep using Styrofoam and keep benefiting from its cheap, lightweight, insulating and excellent packing ability, without damaging the environment? “I and my team have thought of using the carbon that’s already in polystyrene to create activated carbon, which is used in almost every water filters because thanks to the small micro-pores the coal is able to filter out contaminants from water or even air – he explains – So we started doing a variety of tests getting poor results since my dad’s grill catches on fire. At one point we thought of giving up but then, with the right temperatures, times and chemicals, we did it: we have created activated carbon from Styrofoam waste for purifying water and we were also able to reduce Styrofoam waste, solving two global problems with just one solution”. The project received funding from different associations and the guys are planning to file a full patent. Credit: attn:
