How Do They Do It? – Airplane Recycling

How do you recycle an airplane? This video from How Do They Do It shows how an airplane is recycled into useful products. About 80% of an airplane is reusable and/or  recyclable. About 450 large airplanes are scrapped every year with about 5900 passenger jets to be recycled by 2028. 

Crystal growing science experiment

Steve Spangler is a celebrity teacher, science toy designer, speaker, author and an Emmy award-winning television personality. In this video he demonstrates how to grow crystals using sodium acetate solution. A single sugar crystal is dropped in a sodium acetate solution and begins growing crystals immediately.    

Compostable bioplastic made from shrimp shells

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, Cambridge, developed a method to carry out large-scale manufacturing of everyday objects—from cell phones to food containers and toys—using a fully degradable bioplastic isolated from shrimp shells.