Going Bananas: redefining plastics: Elif Bilgin at TEDxVienna
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ธ.ค. 2013
- Elif Bilgin is a 16 year old high school student from Istanbul, Turkey. She is currently participating in the ongoing Google Science Fair competition with her project about making plastic out of discarded banana peels. She has won the special award funded by Scientific American named "The Science in Action Prize" and also the Google's "Inspired Idea Award" which was given to her as a result of a public voting which was cast during the month of August, 2013.
She started her project 2 years ago in a school for gifted children in Turkey, of which she has been a student for 6 years. Her project has drawn the attention of many people from media to politics, due to its easily applicable nature. Apart from her passion for science, Elif is also interested in volleyball and has been playing for the last 8 years. She is the captain of her league team in Istanbul
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November 2, 2013 at Volkstheater Wien, Vienna, Austria.
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I'm very proud when I watch your videos. Turkey needs lots of young people like you. We need this. And I'm working for that too as a young Turkish boy.
Congratulations my friend, you're gonna make it! Actually, you already did!
You are totally true mate! Im young turkish boy like you!
ODUL, Turkey needs to get rid of the illigals and islam
That's my friend! Nice job, Elif! :)
She's wonderful and so refreshing such a progressive environmentalist in Istanbul. I will show my daughter in hopes she follows her role
aferin kız, proud of ya!
much better than the "organic hoşaf" idea. goog job!
what happened to her idea now ?
Büyük iş! Teşekkür ederim.
Elif BİLGİN is our pride.We are very proud of her.I think she is Turkey's Stephen Hawking ! I am Turkish , too but i do not speak English well as her :)
at 16?.........impressive Lol when I was seventeen I was busy figuring how to raid our neighbor's apricot tree and wreaking havoc
Awesome to see we don't need petrochemicals for plastic production :)....
Might sound like a silly question, but just curious if the banana plastic is biodegradable? And another, where do the other chemicals that are used come from? Are they sustainable to make?
türkçe alt yazı koyaydınız iyidi
Actually I am surprised .my hope she's cross ordinary captured extraordinary. Again elif one of the God name science
.lol
Thanks. Elif on going new madam kori. Blessing.
Thank you
When I was secondary school we had many labs.. but now after years and years past I learned that labs turned on additional classrooms.. I just ask to you is there any discrimination between state and private schools in Turkey??
Very interesting idea
I agree, Biodegradable plastic out of banana peels. COMMON WORLD! WAKE UP TO THE FUTURE!!!
Love from India❤
hemp is a good source of oil and plastic
Link Town planning with plastic issues.
This proves if science promoted more than religion more people will do research and find solutions to country's and World problems. Sadly she is only one of the few examples when young people receive support they can achieve great things but not thanks to Turkish government as they only support and fund religious aspects, ministers of science and research never gets enough funding to support people doing research . Largest funding in Turkey goes to Religion so a country like this can never move forward except few people who succeeded against the odds. She deserves high respect and recognition as she succeed on her own.
So have you promoted anything on your belief or just another anti-religion yeller?
Joey C Religion as a definition is a good idea, promoting peace and understanding but when used by people becomes to most dangerous tool, thus religion must stay in personal life and should never lead societies, science follows rules and logic which doesn't give any room for people to change it to their will or use it to control people but by comparison religion follows rules which doesn't based on any fact or logical explanation so some people use it as a tool to control masses to either gain power or shape countries. Finally with just religious education you can only find inner peace but can not achieve anything for humanity or bring earth to the future as religion is based on past and part of history, but science is future and creates history scientific education you may not find inner peace but you will create a better future for others and understand how universe works. It is always better to understand and learn than live in the past and obey without questioning.
+Orkun Osken Agree this young girl's accomplishments are even more impressive coming from such an oppressive society. And that oppression stems from religious fervor and intolerance.
You are very impresssive in problem solving Edison would have been proud and Edison and Tesla where not real enemy’s either so even Nicola Tesla would have send you a congratulations note or letter probably that you did great in starting as so many try without luck in making better plastics !!!
So if I have a bread that I put in the freezer I need my plastic to not decay but if I keep my bread in the kitchen it’s fine if my bread decays that the storage plastic also decays after the bread developed a mold I don’t need that plastic anymore, but medical plastic and such that is needed for storing and not decays but is for longer purpose is great also so it’s a combinationof finding oil replacement products before we run out of oil, thank you for this presentation impressive !!!
Thanks for your beautiful project and introduce new helpy item. My idea it's big market just quality.
Already ready project profile farming banana. Ctg hill area and norsighdi target area.
Kola chash risk only air tornado over rain.
Hi
maşallah
cultivation of science.
war -cry.
bioplastic polymer... have you created it yet ?
I have nothing to say about the idea, it is a decent idea and if the banana peals are the suitable material for biodegradable plastics, it is so, kudos. However it is a really bad talk as far as the TED standards concerned...
1.Bad preparation
2.If you developed manual wipers for glasses, where was the proof? (it includes the other scientific topics/awards, which she claimed that she has developed/won )
3.If even a little bit of science behind the idea would not be presented, what is the sense of listening what she has done to reach this point for 10min. We are interested in the idea (in this case) rather than the history. why are the bananas more suitable than the other materials? If she is not doing the scientific work by herself, who is the owner of the work?
She should definitely pursue her ideas anyway.
if you find the comments here offensive, please read the first sentence of the comment...
dud, she is years old. ofc, she would have these problems
Suat Ciftci 16 years old
English is not her first language and she's only 16. I think she's fantastic
how about the other points(2,3)?
I live in Turkey and I can assure you that there is almost no 16 year old kid that can talk that well, so I think you can't approach this talk like it's a standard TED talk. About point 2, I don't think she needed a proof for wipers for glasses, she did that on second grade for god's sake. And she talked about the awards she got, what kind of proof do you want? A Turkish paper about her success which you won't understand anything? Though I agree with your last point. She was talking about herself throughout the talk, no scientific information about her discovery whatsoever.
Thomas Edison didn't invent light bulb. Do your research.
bende burada lys için test çözeyim sıkılınca açıp pc de oyun oynayayım allah böyle eğitim sisteminin belasını versin araştırma yapacak vaktimiz yok okulda lab desen yok ing dersi desen yok bilim dergisi alıp okusak desek bırakın ders çalışın diyorlar varsa yoksa kodumun testleri kız 16 yaşında %99 özel kolejden nerelere gelmiş şurda şu şekilde sunum yapması bile tek başına efsane bir şey oturduğum yerden gurur duydum inş MIT Harvard falan akarsın verebileceğim tek öneri sakın türkiyede kalma burada adamı harcarlar :(
cok haklisin kardeşim :(
Keşke maddi durumuz ii olsaydı özel okullara giderdik. mesala ilayda şamilgil kız Nasa projesine aldı kızi
+ömer faruk ezer bende ünide özel üniye gittim zaten devlette ne olduğunu lisede gördük şuan sabancı üniversitesindeyim allah devletten korusun 10 numara okul abd sistemi önüm açıldı şerefsizim
kaç para aga
nature girls, mean god favour jobs. Done
30 seconds of information, the rest is her bragging about herself.
I said alpha (elif), i said beta
girl what did i say tou you?
if a bird swing becomes a pen
oh my sorrow couldn't be written
my alpha punctured, help!
my less sorrow get much more
hurry my mother! hurry my father!
oh my grave get wooden
This idea is just so stupid. How can no one see this?
Bio-degradable plastic? From a natural resource that is grown world-wide? I think your opinion lacks thought.
Creating bio plastic from banana peals not bananas is an amazing achievement, waste is one of the main problems of Earth, and her project can create bio plastic from an organic waste as banana peals are not used and not a food source unlike current bio plastic sources, this project changes the World by creating great solution for plastic waste problem.