Australian scientists may have discovered solution to our plastic recycling problem

ABC AU ^ | 11 19 2019 | Nadia Daly

[Getready]

How hot and what pressure? Probably superheated steam and 8 quadrillion psi...? Anybody on this site know?

[catnipman]

"Now Dr Humphreys sees the mountains of stockpiled plastic as a wasted resource — one he says could be used instead as fuel"

[Fred Nerks]

Last I heard, the process wasn't commercially sound, but what the heck, we gotta get rid of that stuff somehow. Did you know that the majority of plastic waste enters the oceans from seven or more Asian and South American rivers? It's just the third world using their rivers like a toilet, turning the ocean into a sewer. And the UN blames us, because that's what they do.

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[Yaelle]

Wow. I just learned something interesting. Australia solves problems with science while we use failed political correctness. Hmmm.

[Mike-o-Matic]

It sure sounds a lot TDP to me. But as I recall, the problem was not that the process didn’t work fine, it was that it was uneconomical with crude at cheap prices.

[GBA]

"What we're doing is we're simply taking those materials and converting them back to the liquids and the chemicals they came from,"

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
Everything else gets recycled.

[Fred Nerks]

putting the cycle into re-cycle...