Pollution is always in our heads. I don't mean to say that our heads are polluted, but we always think about the pollution of our environment. And if you don't - you're old-fashioned! Okay, I'm sorry - the real thing is much more serious than this. Pollutions of different ecosystems are way above the normal levels. But right now, I'd like to divert your attention to water. In a nutshell - water is important. It absorbs carbon dioxide, it houses many species of animals and plants, that are in one way or another important to us. Fish, for example, makes great food, while algae photosynthesize. However, various dyes make it harder and harder for sunlight to reach our plant friends. Every day, thousands of gallons of various dyes, used in our industry for things like printing paper, dyeing houses or cars or whatever that needs color, are dumped into the oceans. Scientist have been looking for ways to absorb these substances, without damaging the environment, that is, without chemicals. I find this ironic, you have to risk damaging the environment in order to save it. But luckily, natural materials can absorb the dyes quite well to. One of them being... an orange peel!!
Another point for nature! It seems that orange peel is quite capable of absorbing unwanted material from waste water. And it doesn't even require high temperatures. Sounds almost too good to be true, doesn't it? Theoretically, all is well, but putting it to practice might prove to be a problem. Just think about it, how will they amass the required amount of orange peels? Build separate containers for them? Glass, paper, orange peel.... Or a huge factory where everyone is peeling oranges. And where would the peeled oranges go then? To the market? Might work that way, but I can't think of anything else. Gathering them from the general public is impossible.
So, if you just happen to have an orange peel and are near some polluted water - you know what to do!
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