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Recycling to the nth degree. The future?
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A team use microwaves to break plastics (or any hydrocarbon) back to
oils around the deisel grade and carbon black. Now THIS has to be a
good idea...
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Blimey, you could feed babies to that as well and turn them into
something useful.
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Very nice indeed.
Saving the planet shouldn't be about letting luddites take over but about
new technology and commercial opportunity.
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One wonders how much energy (derived from what source(s)) it takes to
operate the microwave generator. Perhaps the greener thing to do might
be to simply grind up the plastic and re-use it without expending quite
so much energy.
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A company quoted in the article (GRC) says...
"Autofluff is the stuff that is left over after a car has been
shredded and the steel extracted. It contains plastics, rubber, wood,
paper, fabrics, glass, sand, dirt, and various bits of metal. GRC says
its Hawk-10 can extract enough oil and gas from the left-over fluff to
run the Hawk-10 itself and a number of other machines used by
Gershow.".
I can only assume when finally sorted it will be viable. I hope so.
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It's probably too little, too late.
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