Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil

Re:Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil by yowlingcat on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:44PM (#34444665)

Are you suggesting to bury it in the ground so it can leach into groundwater and soil rather than even trying to capture and reuse the CO2? Are you serious or are you joking?

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Re:Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil by csours on Thursday January 19, 2023 @03:29PM (#34445192)

Digging a hole and lining it with clay and polymer, filling it with household waste, and then covering it with a polymer liner is significantly cheaper than what you are describing.

It's not great, there's no great solution, the problem is hard on multiple levels. If a solution made sense, people would already be doing it.

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Re:Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil by worik on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:40AM (#34450186)

The solution is to not generate waste we cannot dispose of

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Re:Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil by yowlingcat on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:59AM (#34450586)

I think this is the correct approach. No need to recycle what we do not generate. My only question is, how much legacy plastic would remain in the supply chain and what do we do with it?

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