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YOUTH IS FIGHTING MICROPLASTIC POLLUTION WITH MAGNETIC LIQUID AFTER WINNING
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Aug 27, 2021
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A young Irishman has come up with his own “cool science-y method” to solve the
microplastic pollution conundrum, winning Google’s international science fair in
the process.
By mixing magnetized iron oxide and vegetable oil, he created a kind of liquid
magnet that collects microplastics which can then be removed via magnetism,
leaving only glistening water behind.
There’s nothing like growing up in a pristine environment to galvanize a person
to its defense, and a feature on young Fionn Ferreira from the south of Ireland
details how since the age of 12, he has been looking to find a solution for the
hard-to-clean microplastics he knew accompanied the growing amount of plastic
garbage that tended to wash up on the beaches he frequented during childhood.
“I was at our beach and I saw a rock and it had oil spill residue on it, and
stuck to this oil spill residue were plastic particles,” says Fionn in a video
presentation for the Plastic Soup Foundation.
“I asked myself why is this happening, and I found out that plastic particles
are what we call non-polar, and oil is non-polar too. In chemistry likes attract
likes, which means non-polar things attract non-polar things.”
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He heard of something called ferrofluid, which was a kind of magnetic water by
combining vegetable oil with magnetized iron oxide powder. In the same video
presentation, he shows that oil attracted the microplastics, and the immersion
of a magnet sucked up the lot.
“I started out as a lonely inventor,” Ferreira told the BBC. “After the Google
Science Fair, I could all of a sudden speak to scientists—they gave me credit
for what I had done. My idea was no longer a toy invented by a child.”
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Indeed after 5,000 tests it was shown that his method could clean 87%-93% of
microplastics from the water, despite the fact that the microplastics came from
a variety of sources like car tires, plastic bottles, and laundry water.
He demonstrated his method at the 2019 Google Science Fair and won a $50,000
scholarship, which he used to go and study chemistry at the University of
Groningen in the Netherlands.
Fionn is now trying to fit his method into a device that can span the opening of
a home waterpipe, or the pipes at a wastewater plant, allowing the ferrofluid to
continuously clean water that moves through it, as well as a different machine
that can be mounted on boats.
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significance,” Larissa Kelly, Ferreira’s former science teacher at Schull
Community College told the BBC. “His invention, based on very simple components,
is groundbreaking. It has powerful potential to provide solutions that will
contribute to the worldwide effort to remove microplastics from the
environment.”
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2 COMMENTS
1. delise54 Aug 29, 2021 at 4:08 am
Good work, young man !!!
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2. MarkB Aug 31, 2021 at 7:44 am
This is wonderful! If this young man continues using his head, eyes & other
senses to discover simple solutions to issues like this, he’s going places!
God commanded us to use (subdue) the world around us, and that definitely
means taking care of it. Great job, young man!
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