Well, tomorrow is Earth Day.
So our science guy, Steve Spang,
is here now to show us a
little bit about recycling.
Hey, look at this.
I was thinking about this.
It's a little sticks that are h.
Watch if you need to keep them in the bag,
because a lot of people do.
Here's what you do. You just put
them down into the bag like thi.
Don't worry about it. Yeah, it .
Yeah. So don't worry about it.
These still sticks, they just go away.
They just go away.
I can take all the magic and they just
go into the bag over and over and over.
Go ahead.
You can try to
like Mary Poppins. Do this.
There's just stuff everywhere.
I was like, vacuuming for days.
They don't. But here's here's
water. So if I put
this down, it doesn't.
They don't dissolve,
so you can't make it dissolve.
So how in the world did the stis
just continue? Stop looking.
I was like, maybe he
won't notice everything on
the table, plus all of this.
Plus this entire bag sitting right here,
that'll all fit in the bag. No,
if you look at this, it's right there.
It all disappears. This is, what did you do? Acetone.
So I'm using acetone right here.
And this, ladies and gentlemen,
is something called polystyrene.
Trade named Styrofoam.
But watch what happens. Go ahea.
You can try yours as well.
There's sticks for you as well,
and there's sticks for you as w.
You can watch this.
When it goes down inside, look at the
touch it and then it just disappears.
Look at that. So it's bubbling pretty well.
There you go. Not hot, of cours.
You're destroying the polystyre.
You're breaking it down.
What a great example of reduced recycle,
reuse.
You cannot recycle polystyrene right here.
It's here for good.
We can reduce and reuse,
but look at that, it'll.
Here and these peanuts are here.
Try the cup.
Just drop the cup down and be f.
So now for just a second.
Now lift it up and watch what happens.
The bottom's gone. There it is.
Why is this so cathartic?
I think that's incredibly fun.
Look at this. So now what?
A great example.
Like all of those will fit into there.
All of those. Wow.
Here's a great example of we got to stop
using this stuff in the stuff that's here.
Reuse it. Reduce, recycle, reus.
We reuse this.
Let's stop making it.
What do you want?
In its place.
Well, we don't want this.
And a lot of people are like,
well, aren't you?
Aren't you just recycling?
You're not at all.
We're just simply destroying it.
This is effective for packaging
because there's lots of air in .
It's a little pockets of
carbon dioxide or whatever.
So instead of using that,
and I'm breaking it down with acetone,
of course I've got to now dispose of all
of this, which makes it for a harder thing.
This is what we're going to do instead.
Look at this.
Now, instead of polystyrene,
how about cornstarch? Feel thos.
Not just cornstarch. Peanuts.
So when?
Amazon comes to the door.
Yeah.
This is.
Yeah,
I'm not telling you to do this t
you are a long way.
These are completely biodegrada.
You are not good.
I can't imagine do you
need like a dipping sauce
or something you like.
So now this down
in water. Now look,
this goes down in water.
These will now look at this.
These will now break down and just wow.
So that's what we want in a landfill.
You want those to. Disappear.
We don't want anything like thi.
These are toxic chemicals.
So we don't.
We want to get rid of the polystyrene.
We want to substitute
something like this coincirt.
I feel like I'm full now.
I mean, you know, you're good.
The fact that he's still able
to talk of the main thing.
These are the kinds of demonstrations
we do this kind of thing. Why?
Because we want kids forever.
And now they won't disappear
in the acetone. Just in
the water. Yeah, just in water.
So now this goes in
just water. And that will.
If I just do it this way,
like this, watch this, we can
just make all of this disappear.
Wow. Now these are the
visual kinds of things.
As we're talking about Earth Da,
we need solutions. So we want ks
to look at this kind of stuff.
I want them to look at polystyrene that
forever and just go, you know w?
Whatever we have, let's reuse t.
Yes, you put it in the bag.
You reuse it, You send it.
But let's stop buying the stuff, right?
Stop doing this.
Because you see, I mean,
when you take a look at that,
disappear
in here. Yeah.
I mean, you never forget
that image of look at that.
Yeah, disappears. Look at that.
It's just it's amazing.
It just disappears. So
we stop using that.
We reduce, recycle, reuse.
We're going to reuse what we ha,
but we're going to find some alternatives,
like the packing material
that'll be fascinating and kind
of fun. Yeah.
We're not going to eat it.
We're not going to eat.
I know we're good for you. OK.
Steve did that for you, Steve.
For you. Thanks for coming in,
my friend. Why am I always a me?
Can you go back and do the news?
I'm that we leave the.
We leave the mess.
Steve, as always here.
Thanks for coming in yet.
Too. We'll be right back.