• BirdwaterHighway@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    naturejab_ aka julian brown is making strides with his microwave pyrolysis plastic into gasoline rig. it’s been giving me a little bit of hope lately.

  • Rivalarrival
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    2 days ago

    It’s a complex hydrocarbon. Shred it, heat it up, and feed it in the front end of a refinery.

    • eleitl@lemm.eeOPM
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      2 days ago

      Unfortunately it tends to get uncontrollably dispersed in the environment before.

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    That’ll be a change from the past 30 years where we’ve merely been unwilling to cope with the volume of plastic waste.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      You’ll be able to walk to Russia on the plastic bridge from Alaska, good times ahead!