Portable machine turns waste plastic into oil.
posted by Victoria-BC-con... | August 27, 2010
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IcerocketHere is the youtube video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGabrorRS8&feature=player_embedded
My questions...
if it is so simple, why didn't anyone come up with this sooner... like in the last 30 years at least???
why isn't this top news everywhere right now?
maybe it isn't for real?
anyone know anything about this?
thanks!
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update
— Aug 27, 2010
I found this article dated sept 2009,
Washington, DC-based company called Envion claims it can do just that with a process that turns plastic into an oil-like fuel for just $10 per barrel.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/16/new-envion-facility-turns-plastic-wa...
what about plastic recycled to become other plastic?
— Aug 27, 2010
what about plastic recycled to become other plastic? maybe this is more efficient than plastic to gas...
this was my first thought then I found this info...
Based on data collected on a state-by-state basis from BioCycle, it is estimated that the actual plastic waste recycling rate in the United States is below a 4% average; a mere 2 million tons. This leaves more than 46 million tons of plastic waste to find a home in incinerators, oceans, and landfills, contributing to further environmental devastation.
I think only the clean plastics made from bottles can become bottles again, and that may be more efficient than converting those to gas...
but the toxic plastics which otherwise go to the dump would be ideal to become gas. Or they could become other toxic plastics...
I guess the real issue becomes harvesting them from the garbage... or more deployment of curbside recycling.
Be sure to share if in the future
— Aug 27, 2010
You get contact info for inviting this group to present. I'd like to ask them to present here. And if you get tech details too, well then by all means..
Plastic is the one thing I've been unable to eliminate from my waste stream. If this is accurate and real, then it's almost like that nuclear fusion contraption in "Back to the Future"!
