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Biodegradable Plastics Recycling (2D)

A 2D side-view compost bin: watch a PLA bioplastic chain hydrolyze bond by bond, and see why temperature, moisture and microbial activity — not just time — decide whether it truly biodegrades or just persists like ordinary plastic.

Materials Science2DModerate60 FPS⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion drives the same Arrhenius hydrolysis kinetics as the 3D compost-bin sim through a plain side-view canvas: four colour-coded polymer chains sit in a compost bin, their ester bonds snapping one by one as the temperature, moisture and microbial-activity sliders push the hydrolysis rate up or down, with fragment counts, CO₂ output and bonds-broken tracked live.

⚙ Under the hood

2D compost-bin cross-section: PLA polymer chains hydrolyze under pseudo-first-order Arrhenius kinetics scaled by moisture and microbial activity, matching the 3D version's model.

biodegradable plasticsPLAcompostingpolymer hydrolysisarrhenius kinetics2D

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install