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weimy froob
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it could be big. very big.

Millions of tons of plastic waste could be turned into clean fuels, other products
Chemical conversion process could transform polyolefin waste

A new chemical conversion process could transform the world's polyolefin waste, a form of plastic, into useful products, such as clean fuels and other items. The conversion process incorporates selective extraction and hydrothermal liquefaction. Once the plastic is converted into naphtha, it can be used as a feedstock for other chemicals or further separated into specialty solvents or other products.

The United Nations estimates that more than 8 million tons of plastics flow into the oceans each year. A new chemical conversion process could transform the world's polyolefin waste, a form of plastic, into useful products, such as clean fuels and other items.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 131956.htm
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Awesome! We have to be able to do something with the plastic problem. Hopefully this ends up being a possibility.
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8 million tons?! recycle, people.
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Vulcan Vidiot wrote: Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:11 pm Awesome! We have to be able to do something with the plastic problem. Hopefully this ends up being a possibility.
game changer? i like to think optimistically on possibilities like this.
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bubu dubu. wrote: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:55 pm 8 million tons?! recycle, people.
thoughtlessness runs rampant with the species. terrible.
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ENVIRONMENTPLANET OR PLASTIC?
This young whale died with 88 pounds of plastic in its stomach
The animal in the Philippines likely starved because its stomach was full of plastic, not food.

ON SATURDAY, THE curators at a natural history museum in Davao City, the Philippines, got a call from the local marine agency: An emaciated-looking whale in the Davao Gulf was vomiting blood, listing badly as it swam, and was very likely going to die shortly. They should come pick up its body.

When Darrell Blatchley, a marine mammal expert and the curator at the D’Bone Collector Museum in Davao City, brought the whale back to the lab to open it up for a necropsy, he found something shocking: more than 88 pounds of plastic waste jammed into its belly.

“Plastic was just bursting out of its stomach,” he said. “We pulled out the first bag, then the second. By the time we hit 16 rice sacks—on top of the plastic bags, and the snack bags, and big tangles of nylon ropes, you're like—seriously?”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/envi ... ilippines/
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here's something else to look at.

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The Earth created humans because it wanted plastic.
It's been 32 years since one of MN's four major sports teams has been to the Championship/Superbowl.
Every single year is failure until we win one. 4 teams, 32 years. That's roughly 128 consecutive failed seasons.
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