Japanese Firm Builds Small Machine that Converts Plastic Back Into Oil
August 23rd, 2010If there’s electricity around…
I know!
How about converting U.S. aircraft carriers into massive trash barges to clean up the Pacific Trash Vortex. Those aircraft carriers run on nuclear power so there should be plenty of juice on board for turning that stuff back into oil.
Just a bit more comedy on Cryptogon this morning… *sigh*
Via: United Nations University:
Oh, that could be so cool… this could have great potential for both good and ill.
There would be lots of “shovel-ready” projects for dismantling every landfill from the past 70 years or so, and sifting out all the plastic.
Non-biodegradability ftw!! 🙂
On the “ill” side, I can just see the next big crime bubble – stickups of recycling trucks replacing armored-car jobs:
“Gimme the trash or I’ll blow your head off”…
And we know that eventually the Gubmint would confiscate all out plastic like they did with gold – well, they’ll get my soda bottles when they pry them out of my cold, dead hands.
🙂
http://www.sprword.com/videos/addictedtoplastic/
Features : pacific ocean’s plastic patch, recycling plastic, biodegradable plastic.
I don’t know what to think of it. If this hasn’t any emissions and the products burn well without dioxins etc, then it will be good.
But better would be to collect the garbage and burn it centralized in a controlled environment.
Or not producing any plastic stuff and wraps at all would be the best.
Not sure how fresh or amazing this story is – thermal depolymerization has been around for a while:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization
Of course, it’s still not an Entropy Buster!