Shipboard reactor could convert ocean-based plastic waste into diesel [feedly]

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Shipboard reactor could convert ocean-based plastic waste into diesel
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine



Having now reached the deepest parts of the ocean, the plastic pollution problem is calling for some creative solutions. Plastic-eating bacteria or edible alternative materials could help, as could recycling the mess into shoes, hardier polymers or even Panama's Plastic Bottle Village. Now, an organic chemist and a sailor are trying to make that waste worth collecting, by turning it into a usable diesel fuel through a semi-portable reactor.

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Category: Environment

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