TOF imayitanitsa ma National Academy kuti Afufuze Kukonzanso Pulasitiki

Monga gawo la The Ocean Foundation's Redesigning Plastics Initiative, pa 15 Julayi 2019, tidapempha msonkhano wowona kuchokera kumagulu akuluakulu a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine kuphatikiza: The Ocean Studies Board, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology ndi Board on Environmental Studies ndi Toxicology. Purezidenti wa TOF, Mark J. Spalding, membala wa Bungwe la Ocean Studies Board, adaitanitsa msonkhano wa scoping kuti afunse funso la momwe ma Academies angalangize pa sayansi yokonzanso mapulasitiki ndi kuthekera kwa njira yopangira kupanga kuti athe kuthana ndi zomwe adagawana. mavuto padziko lonse pulasitiki kuipitsa. 

Tidayamba pakumvetsetsa komwe timagawana kuti "pulasitiki si pulasitiki," ndikuti mawuwa ndi ambulera yazinthu zingapo zopangidwa ndi ma polima ambiri, zowonjezera, ndi zigawo zosakanikirana. Kwa nthawi ya maola atatu, gululi linakambirana zovuta zambiri zothetsera vuto la kuipitsidwa kwa pulasitiki, kuyambira kuchira ndi kubwezeretsanso mpaka zolepheretsa zowononga zinyalala komanso kusatsimikizika pakuwunika za chilengedwe ndi zotsatira za mapulasitiki pa malo okhala, nyama zakutchire ndi thanzi la anthu. . Popeza kuyitanidwa kwa TOF kuti achitepo kanthu pa sayansi pakukonzanso, kuyendetsa njira yopangira zinthu, ena adatsutsa kuti njira iyi ingakhale yoyenera pazokambirana zoyendetsedwa ndi mfundo (m'malo mofufuza zasayansi) kulamula kukonzanso kuti athetse zida ndi zinthu. Kuvuta kwa kapangidwe kazinthu, kuchepetsa kuipitsidwa, ndikuchepetsa kuchuluka kwa ma polima pamsika. Ngakhale kusatsimikizika kwasayansi kukutsalirabe momwe angabwezeretsere, kugwiritsiranso ntchito, kapena kubwezeretsanso mapulasitiki omwe alipo pamlingo waukulu, asayansi angapo pamsonkhanowo adanenanso kuti akatswiri opanga mankhwala ndi asayansi azinthu atha kufewetsa ndi kulinganiza kupanga pulasitiki pogwiritsa ntchito njira zopangira bio-based, makina ndi mankhwala. ngati pali chilimbikitso ndi kuitana kutero.  

M'malo molamula kuti zida zamtundu wanji zikhale zotani mu mapulasitiki, wophunzira wina adanenanso kuti njira yoyendetsera ntchito ingatsutse gulu lasayansi ndi labizinesi kuti likhale lanzeru komanso kupewa malamulo omwe angakanidwe ngati ofunikira kwambiri. Izi zithanso kusiya chitseko chotseguka kuti apange zatsopano zambiri pamsewu. Pamapeto pa tsiku, zipangizo zatsopano, zophweka ndi zogulitsa zidzakhala zabwino monga momwe msika umafunira, kotero kuyang'ana mtengo wamtengo wapatali wa kupanga ndikuwonetsetsa kuti zinthu zimakhala zotsika mtengo kwa ogula ambiri ndizofunikanso kuzifufuza. Zokambirana pamsonkhanowu zidalimbikitsanso kufunika kotenga nawo gawo pamapulasitiki kuti athandizire kupeza mayankho omwe amathandizira kuti akwaniritse.