Making plastic into oil |
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| By Matt Mayer in Recycling | July 26, 2007 | |
Treehugger had a story recently about a couple guys in Japan who have invented a machine that will take plastic and break it up, basically backwards, into petroleum products.
I have been accused of being a simpleton, but this seems like a really good idea to me. Now maybe it puts out too much air pollution, but given how much plastic and floating around our world it seems like this process has some serious potential.
And you know, while recycling is great, a lot of plastic things can only be recycled once and this process could allow them to be recycled once and then broken down and the petroleum could be reused.
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mememine69 said,
Tree Huggers: If you are going to hug a tree, for god sakes shave your feakin arm pits first!
Matt Mayer said,
You’ll have to excuse me if I have no idea what you are talking about? Care to elaborate?
katie grotegut said,
We need less petrolium, not more. It causes CO2. That is a greenhouse gas, the main cause for climate change. Hello! It’s a stupid idea. Let’s not encourage it. Just quit using plastic bags and try not to buy so much STUFF.
auntiegrav said,
“If you want Change, keep it in your pocket.”
I read about another process where toxic plastics are used in steelmaking in place of some of the coke, both to save on coal costs and to get rid of the toxins. The high temperature of the catalytic process completely destroys the things that normally would just create dioxins when burned.
“Idiocracy” is here now.
auntiegrav said,
Oh yeah, one more comment for mememine69: Instead of the treehuggers shaving their armpits, perhaps everyone else should STOP shaving their armpits. It’s gonna happen eventually, anyhow. We might as well do SOMETHING toward a Descent Plan on purpose.
Matt Mayer said,
Katie–
I wouldn’t disagree with you that we need less petroleum in this world, but it’s unrealistic at this point to expect everyone to completely stop using it, wouldn’t you say? Since we have billions upon billions of plastic bottles lying around (many of which aren’t recyclable anyway) it would seem like a good use of resources to turn these bottles back into oil. Then we don’t need to go out and find new oil, we can take existing oil in a different form and reuse it. This saves the environment since we won’t have to pull the oil out of the ground while getting ride of a nuisance that is clogging up our world. Seems like a win/win to me.
Matt Mayer said,
Also, hit no impact man for more stats.
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2007/08/some-reasons-i-.html
Ka-bar said,
Wow. Considering the amount of plastic garbage we have slumbering in landfills around this great country of ours, we could turn out to be the new Saudi Arabia of garbage!
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Jlinseattle said,
So we have to rid of the plastic currently that isn’t a question and going backwords and returning plastic to its orginal form sounds ideal in both my scientific and environmental head. The question I’m running into and would like clarification is what are yourgoing to do as now the oil is giving a second life. In this life what course is it going to run to bring force positive change and not just fall into its orginal dead end?