Turning Plastic Back Into Oil?
August 25th, 2010 by ComputerBob
Regular readers may remember that I’ve discussed it before — the pollution problems caused by the fact that nearly all of the world’s plastics take hundreds or even thousands of years to finally biodegrade.
And burning it produces even more pollution — some of it deadly.
But here’s some good news: “Akinori Ito, the CEO of Blest, a Japanese company, has somewhat of a panacea. If plastic is just oil, why don’t we simply turn it back into what it was, he pondered. So the guy made a machine to do just that. His solution is safe, eco-friendly and efficient.”
I wish them all the best with that — it sounds like a great idea to me.
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