[Red Badger]

Ping!..................

[dfwgator]

[Red Badger]

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-a-better-way-to-break-down-plastics-into-fuel

[Fungi]

Pestalotiopsis microspora: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic
https://halalfocus.net/pestalotiopsis-microspora-the-mushroom-that-eats-plastic/

[Da Coyote]

Can we make fuel from “woke” folks?
From studies majors?
From DemocRAT politicians?
All of the above?
Please, oh please.
Saves society, the earth, and the sanity of those remaining.

[dangus]

The U.S. safely disposes of (in landfills) or burns nearly all of our plastic. It’s “out there” in the sense that it’s in 1 of a couple hundred landfills, most of which can be functional for centuries.

[Nateman]

As the amount of crude in the world gets smaller its price will go up and alternatives will become cost effective. No tinkering needed .

[Daffynition]

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Cielo Waste Solutions, a Canadian company, turns landfills into diesel fuel.

https://www.cielows.com/

[Skywise]

Mr fusion?

[upchuck]

My kitchen oven is warming up as I type this.

[gloryblaze]

But what about tires? Steel belted radials?

[SkyDancer]

Doesn’t it take more energy to convert?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I’m waiting for the day they can convert discarded rubber tires into metallurgical coal. (not just any old coal, met coal is specific to blast furnaces = steelmaking)

[Chode]

Plastic wastes provide asphalt with an average compressive strength of 23.8 MPa. Another commonly used material in pavements is used rubber tires. These tires can come from cars, trucks, trailers, and many other venues as well.

[taxcontrol]

My understanding is that this has been known for a while now. What has been missing is an ECONOMICAL mean of collecting the plastic materials, separation of the valuable (easily and profitably recycled plastics) and conversion of waste plastics.

More power to them if they have improved the economics of recycling.

[mountainlion]

Most of recycled plastic is burned for fuel in furnaces.

[JeanLM]

“Single-use plastics impose an enormous environmental threat,*********************************************

I hear this all the time but aside from resting quietly in a properly designed landfill, no one ever describes what enormous threat plastics pose to the environment.

I don’t oppose burning them as fuel at all as long as it is economical to do so, but as long as natural gas is being burned at the well heads because we have so much due to fracking success, it makes no sense.

Graduated from UD back in 70. Good to see them produce some good ideas anyway.

[BitWielder1]

"We want to use green electricity to drive the chemical processing involved in making new things ..."

And a great idea dies before it even gets off the drawing board.

In the first pass, just prove it works economically.
Making the green process itself green can wait.

[viewfromthefrontier]

"As this circular economy gets going, the world will need to make fewer original plastics because we will be reusing materials made today into the future," Vlachos said.

Really? So we start making fuel from used plastic and pretty soon there's a demand for this fuel and pretty soon we need more and more of it!