Nov 13, 2018
Craig is on today with Jim Polito talking about how technology is helping with our problem with plastic bags and plastic waste and how China has been hijacking the internet backbone of western countries.
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Transcript:
Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 11/13/2018
Recycling Plastic Bags - How Technology Is Solving The Problem
Jim Polito: [00:00:00] I'm talking about our good friend and our Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.
Craig Peterson: 0:06
Hey, good morning, Jim. You know when it when it comes to plastic
bag, there have been some technologies that have come out about
that, about being able to because I'm told over and over. Oh, you
can't put them in single stream. Because with the other plastics,
they'll jam up the machine.
Unknown 0:24
It's like, it's like smart people like you, Craig could figure it
out. That's why we have some people like Craig Peterson and others,
because they figure out these problems for us. Like they got us to
the moon. They got us a smartphone, they got a heart transplant,
like oh, that guy's gonna die. Why? Well, he needs a new heart kid.
Well, can't you take one from somebody else and put them in there?
I never thought of that.
Unknown 0:52
Well, I may a basement stairs guy first off that's where you're
like me and Danny. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Unknown 1:00
Choose a plastic bag with a plastic bag as opposed to a plastic
flowers. Yeah, you gotta get done. You know, I will have to send
you on a plastic flowery thing. Yeah. Craig. So you can be like the
rest of the guys. So that's number one, which is the easiest. You
guys are already doing it. But there are a couple of new
technologies that are out right now. First of all, and this was
only discovered this year, they were digging through some of these
massive, you know, trash heaps that are out our landfills and what
they found was really really interesting they found plastics that
has been degrading now it's not supposed to be great when it down
on the ground. Yeah, styrofoam was degrading a few other things
with the grading and in various ways. And what they found was
there's a bacteria that has now come into being that they had never
seen before. According to the research I was reading and this
Unknown 2:00
bacteria will digest any and all plastic for, you know, like it's
flat 95% of plastics that are out there. So what they're starting
to do is they're, they're trying to make sure, first of all that
this plastic isn't about to, you know, studied in our cars or
something if they spread it around. But the idea is they'll take
this and they will start spreading it into the environment of the
land cells and it will start eating up all of the plastic which is
really good. So that's number one that is brand new. And number
two, that's been around for a while. Most of these small plastic
bags that we get from the stores such as Walmart and others are
designed to be biodegradable, and if they are out in the open and
exposed to the sun, they will break down and break down very
quickly. It's only a matter of months. And so those tree is brand
new and number two, that's been around for a while.
Unknown 3:00
Most of these small plastic bags that we get from the stores such
as Walmart and others are designed to be biodegradable and if they
are out in the open and exposed to the sun they will break down and
break down very quickly it's only a matter of months and so those
trees that have plastic bags in them that you mentioned if they're
the newer plastic bags they will just fall apart into pieces very
small pieces at first and then completely break down wow the
problem is already solved frankly thank you but but no we have to
feel good and go out there and say we're going to do that and as I
said my town is taking away styrofoam too so I'm gonna you know get
my takeout order wrapped in newspaper
Unknown 3:53
you know I mean that's that's basically what it's boiling down
to
Unknown 3:58
why
Unknown 4:00
But many times that Intel Penn and Teller did an episode about that
on their show and they were actually able to convince people to use
I think it was 17 different recycling bands you know one for soil
toilet paper one score so no timers at different in court or South
that have come in contact with raw chicken
Unknown 4:25
and and it was absolutely amazing to be able to do it yeah
Unknown 4:31
no, I didn't is that from their show which I did see some episodes
where you can't say the name of the show on the air yes yes that
was a cable show and it was it was a good show and then add in its
name it had a curse word which was funny
Unknown 4:49
yeah well then you know they did that and I had a chance to talk to
potential at but the reason they did that was that they
Unknown 4:59
you can
Unknown 5:00
You can say someone's line and you can't say someone's
misrepresenting or misleading but you can call it that subtle swear
phrase. Yeah, be banned. We can say BS. There you go. So you can
call it BS and you can't be sued for that. That's right. He said,
they spent a lot of time with the lawyers on that whole thing. So
that's what I called it, but they would they did this study, they
found the original guy that had come up with this study that says
we're about to be very 10 three deep with trash from coast to
coast. Yeah. And this daddy was incredibly flawed, actually had him
bottom there show, unbeknownst to him being on their show. But it
was incredibly flawed. And they pointed out how all the trash from
the whole country would fit into an area that was like 10
miles.
Unknown 5:57
I mean, you people begin to
Unknown 6:00
And then reporters rewrite it and it suddenly becomes the truth and
it becomes accepted. And it's Wait a minute, just like the Did you
know the whole eight glasses of water a day. No one can tell us
where that came from. And there are many physicians who will say,
well, it's important to be hydrated but Who said anything about
eight glasses of water a day? I wrote I read a study on that one.
Yeah, apparently it came as well as the 10,000 steps a day Yeah.
came from a Japanese marketing campaign a lovely
Unknown 6:39
there was no science behind it at all. Yeah, but it was a marketing
both own channel marketing campaign. Just like you know, breakfast
is the most important meal of the day of baking in a while. I know
bread bacon and eggs was a marketing campaign. Yeah, you didn't eat
bacon and eggs for breakfast. It was all marketing Yeah, well.
Unknown 7:00
So, yeah, it people tend to fall into this. It's a headline people
read, right? If it bleeds, it leads. Yeah. And so, you know, we
heard about that barge of trash of New York City. Oh, yeah, it
floated out there. And remember that one? Yeah, man. So all these
people are thinking that somehow there's no way to dispose of the
trash. But it turns out there is a plastic bag many of them now,
and that this technology is easy and cheap can biodegrade in the
sun. And we've got a brand new thing nature's taking care of it is,
you know, factory of it's breaking it all down. Well, if you
believe in natural selection, you believe in evolution. You believe
in the origin of species, then you know that Mother Nature will
find a way and bacteria that wouldn't ordinarily eat plastic. Well,
all of a sudden a mutation and DNA somewhere says hey, look at this
and we can eat
Unknown 8:00
Plastic and digest it. Just like there are certain bacteria that
can eat oil pollutants. Anything else? Craig? We're running out of
time. What's a good ad line from what you've got this week? And
then we'll get folks the information so they can get on your list
and get everything that's going on this week. Yeah, there's a lot
that I think the number one thing that you might want to mention
real quickly is that a lot of people have been getting on President
Trump with him going out and Shane China is stealing intellectual
property. talked about this a little bit on the on your show
before. Yes. And the reality is now we have found that China has
been hacking Now I mentioned the different type of hacking, China
Telecom, big telecommunications company out of China. They have a
presence in the United States they've been using their presence in
the US to reroute our
Unknown 9:00
traffic through China certain companies they will go after company
or an internet service provider and I'm not going to get technical
and how they do it but they will route all of the traffic of China
they will break the encryption they'll capture everything we're
talking about email traffic website traffic banking traffic,
everything we routed to China them back to where it's supposed to
be. People hardly ever notice sometimes it's been six months or
more that they've been monitoring a company or in some cases,
government offices and sustainability. So so basically
Unknown 9:37
it's basically like in the old days there the rerouting all of my
mail that comes to my house through their processing center.
They're opening it up. They're looking at it, resealing it and then
having it delivered to my house without a gem. Wow,
Unknown 9:55
Craig, you've been a big help today while actually helping us with
the plastic issue.
Unknown 10:00
But not just that with this information. And folks, you can get all
this information from Craig Peterson. All you have to do is text my
name to this numbe.r 855-385-5563 855-385-5563.
Unknown 10:20
That's right. And Craig will get back to you with that information.
Standard data in text rates apply. He will not annoy you. He will
not sell your name. He won't try to sell you anything. He's just
going to provide you with great information. And Craig, thank you
so much for your time, buddy. You were a big help today. Hey, take
care. Take care. Bye bye. All right, when we return
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