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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by xvilka on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:01PM (#21855094)
There is quite interesting Israeli startup Ubq[1] claiming it can recycle [2] greasy plastics into the material usable for further plastics manufacturing.

[1] https://www.ubqmaterials.com/

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/climate-solutio...

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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by swiley on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:37PM (#21855208)
It’s not hard to come up with a process that can recycle anything organic into any petrochemical via Fischer Tropsch. What’s difficult is doing it economically.
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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by gamblor956 on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:14AM (#21855561)
They claim to be able to do it economically.
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