Poly-Glu

Poly-Glu

Social Challenges

What is Poly-Glu?

- A polymer of the amino acid glutamic acid.

-Has been applied in fields such as food, industrial equipment, and cosmetic material.

-Often used for purification of various types of contaminated and waste water.

-Made from fermented soybeans.

-One gram of PolyGlu can treat up to 5 L of water.

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• has to be clean enough to host life (sewers)

• Generates sludge that must be treated and disposed of

• Cannot treat and clean everything (poison)

• Does not include salty ocean water

• Constant need of supply since water is an everyday necessity

• Expensive

How Can It Be Used In Our Lives?

Social Changes

Main Purpose

• Creating drinkable water in third world countries and saving lives

• Filtering agricultural waste water

-Provides quick and effective way for many malnourished individuals to receive sanitary drinking water.

-Relatively easy formula provides short-term solution that may be made without excessive international assistance from first-world countries.

Alternative Uses

• Camping

• Filtering pools and aquariums

• Clean water to take clean baths