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Have you ever thought that the potatoes can be made into plastic? Of course many people think, impossible did happen. However, for six students of SMAN 48 Jakarta, it is not impossible. Through various research and lab trials, they finally were able to create the plastic base material with potatoes.

This extraordinary discovery has led the team SMAN 48 Jakarta became champion on Competition Think Quest International 2011, which followed about 33,000 people in 7603 teams from 52 countries. Delivery of the prize will be conducted in San Francisco Bay Area, United States, October 2011.

The discovery of the plastic potato originated from trial and error and simply apply the theory they can at school.

Millions of tons of plastic waste are dumped into the sea each year to present a serious threat to whales. Details of the conclusions will be revealed in an international maritime forum which took place on 11 to July 14, 2011 in Jersey, UK.

For example, in 2008, two sperm whales that stranded on the coast of California, USA, has 205 pounds of fishing nets and plastic garbage fragments in his body. One of them has a damaged stomach. An other, in conditions of hunger, has a lot of plastic garbage that blocks the digestive tract.

Seven sperm whales stranded in southern Italy in 2009 also found to have swallowed hook, line, and other plastic objects. Another whale, who was found dead in waters off France in 2002, even had swallowed nearly a ton of garbage, including plastic bags of two well-known supermarket in the UK.