@@ethancampbell7326The makeup is: cellulose (64.4%), hemicellulose (12%), pectin (0.2%), lignin (11.8%), water soluble (1.1%), wax (0.5%), and water (10%)
@@ethancampbell7326That makes it 100% biodegradable. Just because it's not 100% jute doesn't mean they aren't using other biodegradable products... I thought that would be pretty clear
@@unbasedcontrarian Actually no, it's not clear at all, many bioplastics are not biodegradable in nature (only in special composters) and some aren't biodegradable at all. When they say they add binders, it means they're looking for very large molecules that won't break down easily. These may not degrade, no matter whether you get them from petroleum or jute. There's a nice video from dw planet a on this subject
You actually could just walk around with your own bag or bags, I think that's a better option than giving us plastic bags, but some are in living in convenience.
Also, the only time I use plastic bags are for trash bags in bathrooms or kitchens, and my kitty's litter box, other than that, I try to stay away from it.
Not that anyone actually cares, personally I prefer the Jute bags. When it's redundant, I know it had minimal processing and will just be like mulch. Probably provided jobs for some village that likes doing stuff like that.
Just make jute bags again. leave out the chemicals. once the bags are no longer usable, cut them up and add to your garden dirt, to help maintain moisture, which means saving water. Sometimes it is better, safer, easier and healthier, to just go all natural.
Yeah so that you cut down more forests to plant more jute to meet demand. Defeats the purpose really. See chemicals is umbrella term, you are made of chemicals my dude but it all depends on the chemicals and how they used. Even if the chemicals are bad for the environment if they are repurposed each time or can be converted to less problematic ones then you good. If the yield you get is higher than just sewing bags it’s much better. Say it takes 1kg to sew one bag but with the same amount using this process I can make 10 bags since I’m just using jute to get the cellulose (which you can get from most plants btw) then don’t have to cut down the forests Im trying to protect in order to plat more jute to replace the plastic that damages the forests I just cut down. See the problem
@@eleicajunstrom8724 the basic of chemistry is how can we get more with less which ironically is great for the environment. Besides bags aren’t the only thing made of plastic they just very problematic because people just toss them everywhere. Now you can either educate but we tried and people are idiots. Other option is to find an alternative hopefully cheaper or the same but that degrades. One of our project during high school chem club was make a bio fuel which although still will add pollution (can’t really go around it burning anything makes co2 and other greenhouse) but hopefully less and could reduce oil drilling which destroys marine ecosystems we actually depend on. Another project a friend and I did was try make a super conductor semi liquid mostly based of carbon and electrolytes that could replace copper. All it takes is asking the right questions and testing things out.
@@dreammaker9642 Cool. I am putting my bet on the youth, they will be the ones to come up with the solutions to end world hunger, wars and our pollution problems. Just think, is we could invest all of the money we spend on wars and instead educate and feed every child. If we would give safe water to every child and do away with the crazy amount of drugs, spilling over into our countries... where could we be right now, in our evolution of humankind... our world could be amazing!!!
100% jute is not water tight unlike plastic and this product will work same as plastic while being biodegradable. using 100% jute is obviously a better option but you can't use it everywhere!
@@alphagt62 For shopping 100% jute bag is enough, for everything else that needs a more durable material no but a 100% jute bag is gonna be enough for a lot of things
@@mattmarzula I'm not talking about shopping bags. It's in general to use the bag for other purposes. For shopping, jute is just fine and a better option.
I suspect it might be closer to “do not open while operating” or “must be closed while operating”. Or if there’s a safety interlock maybe it means “will not operate while open?
Does jute grow as fast as hemp? If its non-toxic & edable, at least by animals, it would seem it would reduce land fill waste. also, if it gets blown around like the plastic bags, it could be safely eaten by wildlife reducing litter and less hazaardous to the animals than plasics. Colors found in nature. My bunnies love to eat baskets.
@@josephconradisidro Yeah, but I'm half-half on whether that's a bad thing. Common use plastics aren't particularly poisonous, and they're ending up in chunks like rocks and circulating through the body now. Just seems like humans created a new element, and that's kind of cool. Gonna research it later, though. Wanna know what the big deal is.
Right, the latest post reminded me to research. The takeaway is that PS (polystyrene (styrofoam)) is super-bad stuff. Most other plastics cause immune responses that reject them from the body, but PS renders cells it comes into contact with ineffective, usually killing them, including white blood cells. It's been shown to cause major organ failure in high enough doses. Keep in mind this was a test on different organs grown in a lab, however. I didn't get too far into what exactly all the plastics do, but PMMA can also inhibit growth in fish from one study I saw. Given, however, that the fish in that study had to live in and basically constantly breathe and ingest different concentrations of PMMA for it to do anything. So my main takeaway was that it's okay for the most part unless you eat a lot of styrofoam, so don't put your takeout boxes in the microwave. Put it on a plate first.
@@frikyouallResearch like this is always interesting but usely pointless in a discusion, like for an example drinking destilated water can kill you by washing out the minerals out of your body. In the real-world you get most of your minerals from food anyway, and you have too drink like 20 Liter / 5 gallons daily for many weeks to get an effect. So if they are feeding fish a diet made of 50% styrofoam as an example, ofcourse it is not healthy, put pointless because that dont happend in reality. Can you state the study, I am curios how they have it done
Polylactic Acid (PLA) is an (mostly) organic plant based - usually corn - "plastic" that's semi-biodegradible and extremely common in 3D printing and also dirt cheap. It doesn't fair well above about 40C - but I've always wondered why this isn't used more in place of single use plastics. My guess is you'd have to reconfigure your industrial equipment to work well with it which I'm sure isn't trivial. And although it's kind of biodegradable, it does need heat and/or special solvents or enzymes to degrade, so it would need it's own specialized waste stream.
the problem is probably that PLA is pretty brittle without additives, and if made into a rope or similar, it would likely break much faster than other plastic rope. it also doesn't fair well when exposed to the elements
@@frikyouallThe problem isn't with the people who save and reuse them. It's the people who irresponsibly dump them where they end up in the ocean or they end up in landfill. Both of which cause untold amounts of harm to local flora and fauna. Most plastic waste can take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to properly decompose and even then, it never fully disappears; it just gets smaller and smaller. Someone would have to be incredibly silly not to be able to realise how dangerous that is.
@@danielstadden1149 America, STRONGEST military in the world, BY FAR. It's not about the money, it's about who has the gun. You have no money, you have no gun.
This already exist with hemp. It is known and not hard to make. In fact ford did it in 1900' ish. Made a car using hemp fiber material for the body and the engine runned on hemp oil. The process to do both is still known today but of course bo one's doing it 🤷🏻♂️
Impressive, but, wouldn't be easier to just make bags with the regular jute... Like we've been doing for thousands of years already? Go to the local market and probably you'll find someone making these bags by hand. They look nice and you'll be helping the local economy.
Ireland may be cool enough that a wax coating on a cotton or nylon tote may be a viable alternative. I mention nylon totes because there are many that snap down to fit in a pocket these days! You can use wax-based snow proofing for shoes on the cotton, some nylon ones may be water repellent. I've used it for awhile for 3 season use in America and it works well. Can't use it in the South in Summer though! 90+ degrees down here in Atlanta!
Lol they're using more chemicals than it takes to make plastic. People just hear that there's plants in something and they think that it must be good for the environment when in fact you have that many chemicals you're just making a fad that people will follow for a small time until they find out how horrible it is for the environment
Almost all chemicals are toxic to the body or nature. When they say it isn’t it usually means that the levels of toxic are tolerable not that they aren’t toxic. The jury is still out on what the accumulative effect is of being exposed to a multitude of these over a lifetime.
@@eloymarquez4783 I’m for going back to glass. But yes, the production cost of biodegradable products like this is significantly increased, hence the movement towards plastic in the beginning. Cost and deforestation, (paper products) which was also more expensive vs plastic
@@jgetscensored7837glass is way less sustainable than plastic. Uses tons if energy, takes 1000x longer to degrade, and uses 100x as much energy to transport. So either learn to use a bloody trash bin, or become LESS ecological by using paper or glass.
If it lasted longer in the elements, yet still broke down in about a year to six months, it'd be perfect for the stuff farmers put down on their fields
Using the Jute for cordage to make String Bags, ensures fewer of the bags produced will be discarded in the first place and the ones produced are still biodegradable. Many fewer chemicals, and Kilowatts of energy required too.
Hope this will be distributed worldwide to replace plastic bags. The production of these biodegradable bags will mitigate the effects of climate change and global warning.
I wonder when people are going to realize that just the plant fibers is a biodegradable plastic, you don't need all those convoluted steps for much other than a few specific things. Just hydrogen peroxide and a steam press is all the special equipment you really need to make bioplastics from wood. The hydrogen peroxide basically bleaches it and isn't toxic, then steaming and pressing it makes it dense and water repellent in any shape you want. Something like creosote can be used as a binder and will keep it sturdy in moisture. A lot of small stuff can be made with just the unbleached material. Between those you can replace most single use plastic products with a layer of wax for extra waterproofing. Glass and aluminum can take care of just about everything else, and those are much better for recycling than plastic.
It's only about five times as much. Those cost will be passed on to the consumer so they can bag their plastic bottles and plastic wrapped foods in Styrofoam containers.
"...we extract the cellulose from jute..." So basically it's a scam... 70% jute how? By volume? How many kg of "secret chemicals", additives, binders, and polymers are added for every kg of end product?
@@ashiquemahmud7795you call that success? The only success here is conning people into paying five times as much for a product that the government can mandate the usage of from a cheap plentiful local resource. That's called a grift. You think about that when you put your plastic bottles and plastic wrapped foods and Styrofoam containers into your 70% jute bag. A bag that takes a long enough time to break down to cause the same problems as plastic bags while they're decomposing and leaving behind the other 30% that they won't talk about.
Thank you for raising the issue. He uses soluble starch as binder. He could get cellulose from cheaper and greener sources, but decided to go with jute to stir emotional responses from Bangladeshis. He is now trying to scam the government by agreeing to subsidise this bag production. This is scam
The scientist is from bangladesh, we were particularly famous for jute made products until plastic bags was introduced and quickly grabbed most of the market because of its inexpensive nature.
I think the biggest issue is single-use products. In California, we charge for bags (10 cents to 25 cents). People complain, but the psychological effect of needing to pay for a bag is encouraging more and more people to re-use their existing grocery bags, or bring re-usable bags from home. Some re-usable bags fold up to fit in a purse or a pocket. Sometimes you really do need a disposable bag, but most of the time... you don't. There are probably ones you bought last time that still work. Ones you could keep in the car. Part of the issue is this cultural habit of accepting these things as disposable.
I want to acknowledge the subtle difference between just saying “the materials get mixed together” and “workers mix the materials.” A small but important acknowledgment that this video narration does well!
If youre wondering, the answer to why we don't immediately jump to using ANY of these alternative methods worldwide usually boils down to: 1. Cost 2. The infrastructure required to get you the thing Plastics can be a byproduct of gasoline refining, and theyre so readily availabe because we're already making another product (gasoline) that leaves us with an enormous excess of this cheap raw material that hey, we should just make plastic out of it. Plastic can be made ultra-thin so as to offer insane returns on how much can be made with it, and the infrastructure of plastics is such that reasonably anyone can get their hands on it anywhere in the world (at least compared to like, water lily fibers or whatever miraculous materials youve seen videos on) Like no matter how good-natured you are as a businessman, youre always competing against other businesses. If you are buying jute materials for your bags at $1 for every hundred yards, and your competitor is just using basic plastic bags at $1 for every THOUSAND yards, the good-natured businessman is the one who will have to price his products higher to make up for the fact that his packaging is essentially ten times more expensive.
We SHOULD be using and looking at alternative manufacturing! I WANT to see hemps and jutes and bamboo or whatever else start to be more common place. However I also see that there are prohibitive costs that small businesses will have to undertake for it to be more common. While you and everyone else here might buy that product, just think of yourselves as exceptions to the rule. Most folks aren't going to take the time to care about the ethics or science of what they buy, theyre looking at the final price.
Too bad oil companies and the pockets they grease will do everything they can to stop it. Guy deserves a nobel prize. The secret chemicals part sounds a little sketch though.
I used to live in Dundee Scotland. The smell of the jute always made me feel safe as a kid. Now, they’re no more making jute -textiles was next but failed. Most of the jute factories have been turned into flats or nightclubs that no one goes to.
Good effort. Does it cost less to produce than plastic? How much environmental impact does it have to produce the product? It seems to me that it needs a lot of chemicals to do so.
All that you are doing is replacing 1 plastic with another, second just because they say it bio degradable, doesn't mean that it is. If it functions like plastic then it would degrade like plastic as well. What you forget is plastic comes from the byproduct of producing fuel, fuel is make from oil.
Engineer here and plastic has so many benefits and drawbacks all at the same time. Biggest benefit is cost, ease of manufacture, and consistent grain structure. The consistency of plastic is a major reason we use it too, especially for things that need it. But plastic is also appears to be poisoning us, so like lead and other products I think it’s time we begin to limit its use and come up with better alternatives. I wonder how this plastic will hold up to the other types we use.
How many of the chemicals used to create this "plastic substitute" (which in the true sense of the word is also plastic) are petroleum sourced? I assume the primary objective here is simply using jute in a new manner, not trying to avoid using petroleum products. It is wise to use resources that are readily available to create alternatives to commonly used materials. We will never move completely away from utilizing petroleum products, however, nor should we. People truly concerned about "climate change" would be wise to stop destroying vegetation by covering the earth with man-made materials such as roads, skyscrapers, and absurdly large houses. Allow plants, the symbiotic micorhyzal fungi in the soil, and other soil biota to do what they have done very well for eons by utilizing and sequestering atmospheric Co2.
Why is this product and process considered more ecological than using refined crude oil? Crude is cheaper to extract and likely has less steps required to produce plastic. It's probably possible to make crude derived plastic biodegradable as well.
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No wonder the workers look way smarter than the Einstein who mixed 20 dangerous chemicals and plastic compounds with jute to make a replacement for plastic. 😂
I'm interested to know: * How long does it take to biodegrade? * When it does degraded what does it degrade into? Is there toxicity and how much? * What shapes can you get out of it? It does seem to be versatile in this regard based on how it is dried. * How strong is this material compared to current material. * What is the cost of production compared to petroleum based plastics? It will likely never completely replace petrolium based plastics, but it looks like a nice alternative for disposable things like plastic bags as demonstrated.
Yes. I heard about it. It is in Bangladesh. The main purpose is to save the environment. Also, in Bangladesh, I saw people use reusable bags from it for the grocery which can be disposed of anywhere without harming the soil.
I was stoked by the premise until you showed that it was being used to create bags. We've got so many reusable bag alternatives already. A biodegradable plastic alternative for use in the medical industry (where single-use plastics are serving an important purpose), now that'd be cool
Its more environmentally frenly not to use fresh plant material just growing jute but to use discards from food industry like coconut 🥥 husks & empty corn 🌽 husks & fruit & vege peels
They had this out 100 years ago and it was called hemp but got destroyed the whole idea so they can bring out other ingredients like plastic crap etc etc
We replaced these things with plastics now we are switching back
We cannot atone for our blasphemy
I know lol they said its 70 percent jute 20 percent land pollution😂
@@ethancampbell7326The makeup is:
cellulose (64.4%), hemicellulose (12%), pectin (0.2%), lignin (11.8%), water soluble (1.1%), wax (0.5%), and water (10%)
@@ethancampbell7326That makes it 100% biodegradable. Just because it's not 100% jute doesn't mean they aren't using other biodegradable products... I thought that would be pretty clear
@@unbasedcontrarian Actually no, it's not clear at all, many bioplastics are not biodegradable in nature (only in special composters) and some aren't biodegradable at all. When they say they add binders, it means they're looking for very large molecules that won't break down easily. These may not degrade, no matter whether you get them from petroleum or jute. There's a nice video from dw planet a on this subject
Why don't we, and hear me out, just make bags out of the jute fibers again? Instead of making massive chemical slurries and adding 50 extra steps
Hah, no sh*t huh. I used to like to do those weaving projects as a kid and I would make a cardboard loom to make jute 'clothe' so i think its possible
You actually could just walk around with your own bag or bags, I think that's a better option than giving us plastic bags, but some are in living in convenience.
Also, the only time I use plastic bags are for trash bags in bathrooms or kitchens, and my kitty's litter box, other than that, I try to stay away from it.
Not that anyone actually cares, personally I prefer the Jute bags. When it's redundant, I know it had minimal processing and will just be like mulch. Probably provided jobs for some village that likes doing stuff like that.
sometimes you want waterproof bags
Just make jute bags again. leave out the chemicals. once the bags are no longer usable, cut them up and add to your garden dirt, to help maintain moisture, which means saving water. Sometimes it is better, safer, easier and healthier, to just go all natural.
Yes, in your garden it sounds like it would look and act like coconut coir.
Yeah so that you cut down more forests to plant more jute to meet demand. Defeats the purpose really. See chemicals is umbrella term, you are made of chemicals my dude but it all depends on the chemicals and how they used. Even if the chemicals are bad for the environment if they are repurposed each time or can be converted to less problematic ones then you good. If the yield you get is higher than just sewing bags it’s much better. Say it takes 1kg to sew one bag but with the same amount using this process I can make 10 bags since I’m just using jute to get the cellulose (which you can get from most plants btw) then don’t have to cut down the forests Im trying to protect in order to plat more jute to replace the plastic that damages the forests I just cut down. See the problem
@@dreammaker9642 Definitely a different way of looking at the process and the materials used. I will have to look into your hypothesis. Thank you.
@@eleicajunstrom8724 the basic of chemistry is how can we get more with less which ironically is great for the environment. Besides bags aren’t the only thing made of plastic they just very problematic because people just toss them everywhere. Now you can either educate but we tried and people are idiots. Other option is to find an alternative hopefully cheaper or the same but that degrades. One of our project during high school chem club was make a bio fuel which although still will add pollution (can’t really go around it burning anything makes co2 and other greenhouse) but hopefully less and could reduce oil drilling which destroys marine ecosystems we actually depend on. Another project a friend and I did was try make a super conductor semi liquid mostly based of carbon and electrolytes that could replace copper. All it takes is asking the right questions and testing things out.
@@dreammaker9642 Cool. I am putting my bet on the youth, they will be the ones to come up with the solutions to end world hunger, wars and our pollution problems. Just think, is we could invest all of the money we spend on wars and instead educate and feed every child. If we would give safe water to every child and do away with the crazy amount of drugs, spilling over into our countries... where could we be right now, in our evolution of humankind... our world could be amazing!!!
"biodegradable plastics" appear to all be some form of cellulose mixed with binders.
Exactly, and soluble starch as binder. This is a very old technique. This guy is trying to cash it, hoping that we wouldn’t know better.
It's like a bag, made of fiber. Almost like something like that already exists
Ah secret chemicals, the environment loves that
It's secret cuz the scientist doesnt want anyone to steal his work
Secrets, hum...
It's probably enzymes that can break down cellulose.
Probably just lignin or whatever. I ain’t a scientifically inclined man, just someone who knows the word lignin
That's his research ofc he doesn't want to let anyone know that easy
I'd rather have 100% jute bags 🤣
100% jute is not water tight unlike plastic and this product will work same as plastic while being biodegradable.
using 100% jute is obviously a better option but you can't use it everywhere!
@@Ani_Blitz007this is true, I’m sure there are many great uses for their invention. But shopping bags? The pure jute woven bag might be trendy?
@@alphagt62 For shopping 100% jute bag is enough, for everything else that needs a more durable material no but a 100% jute bag is gonna be enough for a lot of things
@@Ani_Blitz007why would a shopping bag have to be watertight?
@@mattmarzula I'm not talking about shopping bags. It's in general to use the bag for other purposes.
For shopping, jute is just fine and a better option.
“Work is strictly prohibited to open” that’s a good translation
I was coming here to see if someone else caught the engrish
工作时严禁打开
During working hours, [this machinery is] strictly prohibited from being opened.
@@poultrydishthat's not much better.
I suspect it might be closer to “do not open while operating” or “must be closed while operating”. Or if there’s a safety interlock maybe it means “will not operate while open?
It says to not open it while operating
Does jute grow as fast as hemp? If its non-toxic & edable, at least by animals, it would seem it would reduce land fill waste. also, if it gets blown around like the plastic bags, it could be safely eaten by wildlife reducing litter and less hazaardous to the animals than plasics. Colors found in nature. My bunnies love to eat baskets.
You have the mind of a child. A low functioning one.
70% Jute, technically. 30% plastic.
and unfortunately, these are meant to be biodegradable. what will happen to the non-biodegradable components? microplastics
@@josephconradisidro Yeah, but I'm half-half on whether that's a bad thing. Common use plastics aren't particularly poisonous, and they're ending up in chunks like rocks and circulating through the body now. Just seems like humans created a new element, and that's kind of cool.
Gonna research it later, though. Wanna know what the big deal is.
so making plastic out of plastic by adding plant material? sure, like that definitely hasn't been done thousands of times.
Right, the latest post reminded me to research.
The takeaway is that PS (polystyrene (styrofoam)) is super-bad stuff. Most other plastics cause immune responses that reject them from the body, but PS renders cells it comes into contact with ineffective, usually killing them, including white blood cells. It's been shown to cause major organ failure in high enough doses. Keep in mind this was a test on different organs grown in a lab, however.
I didn't get too far into what exactly all the plastics do, but PMMA can also inhibit growth in fish from one study I saw. Given, however, that the fish in that study had to live in and basically constantly breathe and ingest different concentrations of PMMA for it to do anything.
So my main takeaway was that it's okay for the most part unless you eat a lot of styrofoam, so don't put your takeout boxes in the microwave. Put it on a plate first.
@@frikyouallResearch like this is always interesting but usely pointless in a discusion, like for an example drinking destilated water can kill you by washing out the minerals out of your body.
In the real-world you get most of your minerals from food anyway, and you have too drink like 20 Liter / 5 gallons daily for many weeks to get an effect.
So if they are feeding fish a diet made of 50% styrofoam as an example, ofcourse it is not healthy, put pointless because that dont happend in reality.
Can you state the study, I am curios how they have it done
Polylactic Acid (PLA) is an (mostly) organic plant based - usually corn - "plastic" that's semi-biodegradible and extremely common in 3D printing and also dirt cheap. It doesn't fair well above about 40C - but I've always wondered why this isn't used more in place of single use plastics. My guess is you'd have to reconfigure your industrial equipment to work well with it which I'm sure isn't trivial. And although it's kind of biodegradable, it does need heat and/or special solvents or enzymes to degrade, so it would need it's own specialized waste stream.
the problem is probably that PLA is pretty brittle without additives, and if made into a rope or similar, it would likely break much faster than other plastic rope. it also doesn't fair well when exposed to the elements
Ask any old person about single-use plastics. Then look for their grocery bag collection.
It's a good ideal. Besides all the bio farms here I wish would go back to food.
@@frikyouallThe problem isn't with the people who save and reuse them. It's the people who irresponsibly dump them where they end up in the ocean or they end up in landfill. Both of which cause untold amounts of harm to local flora and fauna.
Most plastic waste can take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to properly decompose and even then, it never fully disappears; it just gets smaller and smaller. Someone would have to be incredibly silly not to be able to realise how dangerous that is.
Dirt cheap? Lol it's one the most expensive raw plastics
I'm from Bangladesh,
Jute is compared and respected as gold
In our country❤
Proud of this work🖤🖤
Gold? 😂😂
This technique is developed by Bangladeshi scientist
I love jute for weaving and braiding but the bleaching, baking and blending doesn’t sound very good.
@@ernstramz1794America $40 Trillion in debt 😂😂
@@danielstadden1149 America, STRONGEST military in the world, BY FAR. It's not about the money, it's about who has the gun. You have no money, you have no gun.
This already exist with hemp. It is known and not hard to make. In fact ford did it in 1900' ish. Made a car using hemp fiber material for the body and the engine runned on hemp oil.
The process to do both is still known today but of course bo one's doing it 🤷🏻♂️
Would you drive a car made from weed?
@@Pepesmall yup. Without hesitation, hemp fiber is quite strong. Carbon fiber but more flexible.
Impressive, but, wouldn't be easier to just make bags with the regular jute... Like we've been doing for thousands of years already?
Go to the local market and probably you'll find someone making these bags by hand. They look nice and you'll be helping the local economy.
not waterproof
@@shrestho_um what are you doing with those bags?
the professor is from my university.
Hopefully this thing will replace these stupid paper bags in Ireland. The paper bags fall apart when it rains and it rains every day in ireland...
Och! Me bags fall apart all the time, tis a struggle
you can always just buy a re-usable plastic one and bring it with you for grocery shopping
@@therealpeter2267exactly. Or just get a cotton bag you can use for next 5-10Years.
@@therealpeter2267as long as its strong😂
Ireland may be cool enough that a wax coating on a cotton or nylon tote may be a viable alternative. I mention nylon totes because there are many that snap down to fit in a pocket these days! You can use wax-based snow proofing for shoes on the cotton, some nylon ones may be water repellent. I've used it for awhile for 3 season use in America and it works well. Can't use it in the South in Summer though! 90+ degrees down here in Atlanta!
I like jute rugs and placemats, easy to clean and mostly heat resistant
Still not sure because you're evolving chemicals and polymers, the proof is in the pudding
A lot better than the regular jute bags you get from the retailer. Less dusty too.
Hopefully these 'secret chemicals' are not toxic.
Lol they're using more chemicals than it takes to make plastic.
People just hear that there's plants in something and they think that it must be good for the environment when in fact you have that many chemicals you're just making a fad that people will follow for a small time until they find out how horrible it is for the environment
they 100% are
Almost all chemicals are toxic to the body or nature. When they say it isn’t it usually means that the levels of toxic are tolerable not that they aren’t toxic. The jury is still out on what the accumulative effect is of being exposed to a multitude of these over a lifetime.
It's carbon disulphide.
@@dogdayssewing9402 or just sodium hydroxide to remove the lignin. 😮
Why not just use regular jute fiber to make the bags? I’m not being smart, I’m really curious
no one wants to do the weaving is my guess
Is that difficult? @@sakurashogun
It is already being done but it is less price efficient than plastic
@@ruhulaminrifat8201 this is made in Bangladesh India. The only thing cheaper than plastic bags is labour.
It wil leak when carrying wet waste.
Jute is used in the backing of linoleum which is one of the most green building products on the market and one of the best floors to boot.
You're either being sarcastic or unfamiliar with wood.
@@mattmarzula😂
Lineoleum sucks
@@mattmarzula😂
I love all natural fabrics❤
Ban single use plastics, then we can all use reusable fiber bags! Just as we did for thousands of years
Your $1.50 bottle of coke is going to cost $15
@jgetscensored7837 that is a very high estimation, but if that is the true cost of plastic, so be it. Use glass.
@@eloymarquez4783 I’m for going back to glass. But yes, the production cost of biodegradable products like this is significantly increased, hence the movement towards plastic in the beginning. Cost and deforestation, (paper products) which was also more expensive vs plastic
@@jgetscensored7837glass is way less sustainable than plastic. Uses tons if energy, takes 1000x longer to degrade, and uses 100x as much energy to transport.
So either learn to use a bloody trash bin, or become LESS ecological by using paper or glass.
Glass is almost infinitely reusable, it's a shame we moved away from it to make things cheaper.
If it lasted longer in the elements, yet still broke down in about a year to six months, it'd be perfect for the stuff farmers put down on their fields
This! This would be a great use for this material
We stopped using cellulose because it's highly flammable
It's very nice, we should support environmental protection.
oil & gas companies hate hearing that
There is more o & g in one of Saturn’s rings than on the entirety of earth
I don't believe you. @@lorij3786
Burlap worked fine for many years and they made clothes out of the bags!
Not clothes that anyone would really want to wear though. Hence why sackcloth and ashes were worn in repentance.
I love this idea. I have a distain for single use plastic. We really need to do better for the earth and ourselves. Much love ❤️ 🙏
So he figured out how to turn cellulose rich fiber into celluloid. Groundbreaking
Proud of Bangladesh for this! 🇧🇩
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What do you think the "secret chemicals" are made of? Pixie dust? Haha wake up. It's oil.
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Bangladesh is one big polluted toxic dump. One of the worst in the world.
To me this whole comercial feels more like a plumbus ad from rick and morty
Using the Jute for cordage to make String Bags, ensures fewer of the bags produced will be discarded in the first place and the ones produced are still biodegradable. Many fewer chemicals, and Kilowatts of energy required too.
Hope this will be distributed worldwide to replace plastic bags. The production of these biodegradable bags will mitigate the effects of climate change and global warning.
I'ld like to know how natural it really
Is w/ all those "secret chemicals" & "binders". Until I know what those are I won't trust it. It doesn't seem likely to be any better than plastic
Secret chemicals???
Yeah makes me think it's toxic honestly
More than likely synthetic chemicals if it’s “secret”.
No its not patented so you don't want anyone knowing the formula it is to prevent corporations from taking his idea 😅
@@doodoomode7370 you can’t patent nature it belongs to the Most High, so from your comment it’s synthetic.
@@MIKEYINEYE what you can patent chemical formula?
Bring back basket weavers!!!! We can all gush and compete over the most beautifully and functional
I wonder when people are going to realize that just the plant fibers is a biodegradable plastic, you don't need all those convoluted steps for much other than a few specific things.
Just hydrogen peroxide and a steam press is all the special equipment you really need to make bioplastics from wood. The hydrogen peroxide basically bleaches it and isn't toxic, then steaming and pressing it makes it dense and water repellent in any shape you want. Something like creosote can be used as a binder and will keep it sturdy in moisture. A lot of small stuff can be made with just the unbleached material. Between those you can replace most single use plastic products with a layer of wax for extra waterproofing. Glass and aluminum can take care of just about everything else, and those are much better for recycling than plastic.
For only 20 times the cost of a plastic bag you too can own a jute bag.
It's only about five times as much. Those cost will be passed on to the consumer so they can bag their plastic bottles and plastic wrapped foods in Styrofoam containers.
"...we extract the cellulose from jute..."
So basically it's a scam... 70% jute how? By volume? How many kg of "secret chemicals", additives, binders, and polymers are added for every kg of end product?
This is true and the success was made by a Bangladeshi researcher.
yea we used to make nitrocellulose for camera rolls so i dono why it would be revolutionary XD @@ashiquemahmud7795
@@ashiquemahmud7795you call that success? The only success here is conning people into paying five times as much for a product that the government can mandate the usage of from a cheap plentiful local resource. That's called a grift. You think about that when you put your plastic bottles and plastic wrapped foods and Styrofoam containers into your 70% jute bag. A bag that takes a long enough time to break down to cause the same problems as plastic bags while they're decomposing and leaving behind the other 30% that they won't talk about.
Thank you for raising the issue. He uses soluble starch as binder. He could get cellulose from cheaper and greener sources, but decided to go with jute to stir emotional responses from Bangladeshis. He is now trying to scam the government by agreeing to subsidise this bag production. This is scam
The scientist is from bangladesh, we were particularly famous for jute made products until plastic bags was introduced and quickly grabbed most of the market because of its inexpensive nature.
I think the biggest issue is single-use products. In California, we charge for bags (10 cents to 25 cents). People complain, but the psychological effect of needing to pay for a bag is encouraging more and more people to re-use their existing grocery bags, or bring re-usable bags from home. Some re-usable bags fold up to fit in a purse or a pocket.
Sometimes you really do need a disposable bag, but most of the time... you don't. There are probably ones you bought last time that still work. Ones you could keep in the car. Part of the issue is this cultural habit of accepting these things as disposable.
I’d love to use jute instead of plastic any day.
Soooooo.... they turn it into plastic. Only worked in plastics for years. That may degrade 4 years earlier at 20x the cost
And the "secret chemicals" are probably made from petroleum. What a joke.
We must start accepting the fact that stuff breaks down and we shouldnt stop using them replacing with plastic just coz they do.
I want to acknowledge the subtle difference between just saying “the materials get mixed together” and “workers mix the materials.” A small but important acknowledgment that this video narration does well!
They use words like lawyers and judges😅 to mess with the minds of people wow😮 Nostradamous would be confused😮😮
Whats the other 30%?
Soluble starch.
Usually sourced from corn or potato or cassava - the cheapest you can find
This gentleman looks like a science guy for reals. I'd love to buy products made of this material. 😊❤ Amazing!
You realize the "secret chemicals" are probably made from petroleum, right?
90th plastic alternative I have seen. Never EVER seen one in the markets
Excellent video. Great to see people who are innovative. 👍❤️😇
Great work Bangladesh ❤
Workers work.
workers place a tutu and a plate in the cake
Like others have mentioned, just stick to the raw fibres rather than using chemicals to make the same exact thing that you can throw away? 🤷♀️
If youre wondering, the answer to why we don't immediately jump to using ANY of these alternative methods worldwide usually boils down to:
1. Cost
2. The infrastructure required to get you the thing
Plastics can be a byproduct of gasoline refining, and theyre so readily availabe because we're already making another product (gasoline) that leaves us with an enormous excess of this cheap raw material that hey, we should just make plastic out of it.
Plastic can be made ultra-thin so as to offer insane returns on how much can be made with it, and the infrastructure of plastics is such that reasonably anyone can get their hands on it anywhere in the world (at least compared to like, water lily fibers or whatever miraculous materials youve seen videos on)
Like no matter how good-natured you are as a businessman, youre always competing against other businesses. If you are buying jute materials for your bags at $1 for every hundred yards, and your competitor is just using basic plastic bags at $1 for every THOUSAND yards, the good-natured businessman is the one who will have to price his products higher to make up for the fact that his packaging is essentially ten times more expensive.
We SHOULD be using and looking at alternative manufacturing!
I WANT to see hemps and jutes and bamboo or whatever else start to be more common place.
However I also see that there are prohibitive costs that small businesses will have to undertake for it to be more common.
While you and everyone else here might buy that product, just think of yourselves as exceptions to the rule. Most folks aren't going to take the time to care about the ethics or science of what they buy, theyre looking at the final price.
Bangladesh Pakistan and many other countries need this. Lots of people would mind paying the higher price for these bags
How about 100 times higher price?
work is strictly forbidden to open
"Binders" aka plastic and petroleum derivatives, at that point it's much better to just use a thin polythene lined jute bag.
He really looks like a Chemical Engineer.
Secret chemicals are something that they won't tell us until we are reliant on this instead.
Too bad oil companies and the pockets they grease will do everything they can to stop it. Guy deserves a nobel prize. The secret chemicals part sounds a little sketch though.
Man, this world is dangerously full of daft people, right?… what do you think ? 😁
Patented to protect his chemical creation. That's all. Not a thriller or malicious acts.
I used to live in Dundee Scotland. The smell of the jute always made me feel safe as a kid. Now, they’re no more making jute -textiles was next but failed. Most of the jute factories have been turned into flats or nightclubs that no one goes to.
We need more of these
I remember potatoes for the winter were brought in jute bags.
Wow!! The Hindus in India are really talented people👍
Good effort. Does it cost less to produce than plastic? How much environmental impact does it have to produce the product? It seems to me that it needs a lot of chemicals to do so.
All that you are doing is replacing 1 plastic with another, second just because they say it bio degradable, doesn't mean that it is. If it functions like plastic then it would degrade like plastic as well. What you forget is plastic comes from the byproduct of producing fuel, fuel is make from oil.
Engineer here and plastic has so many benefits and drawbacks all at the same time. Biggest benefit is cost, ease of manufacture, and consistent grain structure. The consistency of plastic is a major reason we use it too, especially for things that need it. But plastic is also appears to be poisoning us, so like lead and other products I think it’s time we begin to limit its use and come up with better alternatives. I wonder how this plastic will hold up to the other types we use.
Wow! He just made flushable wipes!😊
How many of the chemicals used to create this "plastic substitute" (which in the true sense of the word is also plastic) are petroleum sourced? I assume the primary objective here is simply using jute in a new manner, not trying to avoid using petroleum products.
It is wise to use resources that are readily available to create alternatives to commonly used materials. We will never move completely away from utilizing petroleum products, however, nor should we.
People truly concerned about "climate change" would be wise to stop destroying vegetation by covering the earth with man-made materials such as roads, skyscrapers, and absurdly large houses. Allow plants, the symbiotic micorhyzal fungi in the soil, and other soil biota to do what they have done very well for eons by utilizing and sequestering atmospheric Co2.
also just because something is "biodegradable" doesn't mean it's not harmful
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In one interview, he said he is not going to share his "secret" formula to the public.
Why is this product and process considered more ecological than using refined crude oil? Crude is cheaper to extract and likely has less steps required to produce plastic. It's probably possible to make crude derived plastic biodegradable as well.
No wonder the workers look way smarter than the Einstein who mixed 20 dangerous chemicals and plastic compounds with jute to make a replacement for plastic. 😂
It’s literally just cellulose, you can isolate from any plant you want. They just decided to use this one in particular.
Just look at the amount of energy it takes to produce this jute bag!!!!!
I'm interested to know:
* How long does it take to biodegrade?
* When it does degraded what does it degrade into? Is there toxicity and how much?
* What shapes can you get out of it? It does seem to be versatile in this regard based on how it is dried.
* How strong is this material compared to current material.
* What is the cost of production compared to petroleum based plastics?
It will likely never completely replace petrolium based plastics, but it looks like a nice alternative for disposable things like plastic bags as demonstrated.
Yes. I heard about it. It is in Bangladesh. The main purpose is to save the environment. Also, in Bangladesh, I saw people use reusable bags from it for the grocery which can be disposed of anywhere without harming the soil.
Incredible . Absolutely beautiful.
Greaþ idea to save the world..jute replacing plastic. Hopefully, it can be able to use over and over😊
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Back in the 70's I worked for Ludlow corp. Makers of jute products for furniture. What ever happened to them?
Trust us all these chemicals we use to make the jute this capable are far more safe than the jute itself...
Sounds like you're just making plastic out of something else.
AWESOME! Keep up the good work!
Looks like a lengthy and very EXPENSIVE process.
The fibers are stronger before being made to be like plastic
But can we grow this jute plant at a high rate without wrecking the environment and without taking away from food crops.
I wonder whether jute bioplastic, if spun into fibers and wound into rope, would be as strong as a regular jute rope of the same length.
You do know that jute is natural and will break down on it own without needing chemicals .
I was stoked by the premise until you showed that it was being used to create bags. We've got so many reusable bag alternatives already. A biodegradable plastic alternative for use in the medical industry (where single-use plastics are serving an important purpose), now that'd be cool
That's unbelievably clever.
Its more environmentally frenly not to use fresh plant material just growing jute but to use discards from food industry like coconut 🥥 husks & empty corn 🌽 husks & fruit & vege peels
The sooner we find a way to make plastic a shameful memory, the better chance our grandchildren have of reaching adulthood.
This is great! Let’s get this in the US!
Just sounds like a "Watered down New-Problem PLASTIC".
They had this out 100 years ago and it was called hemp but got destroyed the whole idea so they can bring out other ingredients like plastic crap etc etc
This isn’t a replacement to plastics when you remember how oil naturally occurs.
How much more resources, time and extra chemicals does this use to make “plastic”, often you’ll find it is too expensive
Very cool❤❤. What would we do without scientists like this man🤔. Thank you
70% jute ? Then rest is not biodegradable?
The FDA has approved that a safe, acceptable amount of bugs, human fingernails, sweat, and hair is contained in the "natural" product.
It's good that someone cares about the future of the world.