I’ve been kind of hoping with just use renewables to do pyrolysis on waste plastic and turn it back into oil. It’s extremely power hungry to do it but we’ve got power to spare.
With the pyrolysis or the other couple of methods they worked out it actually turns it back into a raw material that can be reused to make new plastic. It’s not as cheap as the methods where they just kind of heated up and melt it back together to become lawn furniture, but it leads to a quality plastic replacement product
I’ve been kind of hoping with just use renewables to do pyrolysis on waste plastic and turn it back into oil. It’s extremely power hungry to do it but we’ve got power to spare.
Plasma gasification can self sustain and generate power
With the pyrolysis or the other couple of methods they worked out it actually turns it back into a raw material that can be reused to make new plastic. It’s not as cheap as the methods where they just kind of heated up and melt it back together to become lawn furniture, but it leads to a quality plastic replacement product
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360128522000302
But why?
There’s absolutely no benefit compared to just burning it and using plant based materials as a resource.