I thought Doc already took care of this.
Posted on 09/17/2009 10:05:04 AM PDT by Kartographer
What if we could turn all the plastic waste we create on a daily basis into fuel to power our cars? A Washington, DC-based company called Envion claims it can do just that with a process that turns plastic into an oil-like fuel for just $10 per barrel. According to Envion, the resulting fuel can be blended with other components and used as either gasoline or diesel.
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Real green energy is that which can profit and produce greenbacks for the investors.
Thats what I say!
I thought Doc already took care of this.
Well, poly means many, and ethylene means, roughly, gas.
Not too hard to figure it out I guess.
“I bet it is thermo-depolymerization.”
Would that be heating plastic until it melts? Great idea!
Oh, no. not the flux capacitor again!
Nah, the Flux Capacitor was so 20th Century.
then pretty soon your gonna have to pay for garbage.
Not the case if you think of the scrap paper market. Companies actually pay for their scrap paper to be hauled away. They then break it down by grade and sell it back to the paper industry for reuse.
I don’t know about you but we in Connecticut have to pay to dispose of our trash.
Its the same everywhere. But if that trash becomes valuable...
I do, actually my grandson takes all my plastic bottles and aluminum cans, saves me the trouble and he makes a few extra bucks that way.
So why do you think it would cost us if plastic waste were suddenly to become more valuable.
I bet the people doing this experiment are paying for plastic now and I bet they get it from recyclers, I bet we would simply see the money paid for plastic bottles increase, giving us more money for our trash. I would then have to stop letting my grandson haul them off and take them myself:)
“I bet we would simply see the money paid for plastic bottles increase, giving us more money for our trash.” More likely, you will see laws passed that force you to recycle to the collectors, without any remuneration for the trash, but higher taxes at sale point, to pay the union collectors.
It’s heating it, under pressure, until it breaks down into short chain carbon molecules, otherwise known as oil.
So why do you think it would cost us if plastic waste were suddenly to become more valuable.
I would love to be paid for any plastics I reurn to the recycling facility.As of Now I get zip.The town must get paid that money.
Well I take mine to a local recycling center and they pay me.
I visit a company that takes coal, runs it through a gasification plant,makes syn gas, fiddles with the syngas to make various molecules that make many different types of plastic.
I’m pretty sure they work with Waste Management who has a large plastics recycling yard adjacent to their plant and in operation for many years. I don’t know what they actually end up with. They know all about the manipulation of molecules.
While feasible, the coat of $10 seem out of line. The collection and separation is expensive and labor intensive. I am skeptical about the economics. Screwing with the molecules is likely possible.
There’s been a company doing this for 6 years or so called Changing World Technologies, they have a pilot plant in Carthage, MO. I believe the parent company recently filed for bankruptcy.
This is a Flux Capacitor:
Well, DANG! Those were the folks I just posted about!
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