
Plastic vaporizing process could recycle bags and bottles indefinitely: A new process uses cheap catalysts to break down polyethylene and polypropylene into their building blocks, enabling common plastic objects to be turned into new products
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2445331-plastic-vaporising-process-could-recycle-bags-and-bottles-indefinitely/
by dead_planets_society
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Does this post come from the petroleum industry, or is supported by them?
“It’s fine to keep producing new plastic, look what we can do with it now!”, the plastics industry probably.
I won’t hold my breath.
What if we just stopped using it
This reminds me of the reports 10 years ago that we could now turn plastic into oil.