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.

Nadcap accreditation awarded for composites

UTC Aerospace Systems’ Engineered Polymer Products (EPP) facility in Jacksonville, Fla., received Nadcap (national aerospace and defense contractors accreditation program) accreditation for manufacture of aerospace composites