Through chemical processes, all that chitin can be turned into chitosan, which is where The Shellworks comes in.

经过化学处理后，所有的几丁质转变成壳聚糖，这时候 The Shellworks 登场。

What you need to do is to extract the chitosan before you can use it as a bioplastic.

把它作为生物塑料之前，你要壳聚糖。

It runs through a set of processes, and out comes the powder, which is the chitosan.

器运行一个流程，出来的粉末就是壳聚糖。

That will form a kind of chitosan and bioplastic goop, which we will put into the dip-forming machine.

这就形成了一种壳聚糖糊状的生物塑料，然后放入浸塑成型。

A material called chitosan, found in the shells of ocean creatures like crabs and shrimp, is being turned into a biodegradable gel that can work as part of a battery.

一种名为壳聚糖的物质， 自螃蟹和虾等海洋生物的外壳，正被转化为可生物降解的凝胶， 这种凝胶可作为电池的组成部分。

We can also make plastic bags from these sheets by gluing them together with more of the bioplastic, which means that the bag is 100% chitosan and so it's much more easily recycled.

我们也可以通过用生物塑料把这些薄片粘合起来制作塑料袋，这样就保证了塑料袋是100％壳聚糖的，所以它更容易回收。