Researchers unlock cheap way to vaporize plastic and use it to make more plastic
Researchers unlock cheap way to vaporize plastic and use it to make more plastic
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a new catalytic process that can vaporize the polyethylene (single-use bags) and polypropylene (hard plastics) that dominate trash piles, converting them...
"vaporize"
Stand back, microplastics, here comes vaporplastics.
Vaporware.
Smell that? That’s called freedumb
In 2095, 70% of all children's eyes will contain vapor plastic.
If it will help us clean up our mess, then great.
But it's not going to make it okay to continue churning out disposable plastics. We need the tech and we need to stop.
Yeah they talk about this kind of stuff in this story and how it isn't going to save us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR2sYlDqdnw&t=762s
well that was depressing
That's !nottheonion@lemmy.world material.
Finally
"Researchers," meaning there's no reason to believe this is actually practical and there is no mention of the energy costs. The latter is especially important because as bad as microplastics are, climate change is just as bad, if not worse.
Everything started as a proof of concept with no practical value at first. Like the transistor.
I think for me, if we have a way to keep a substantial portion from entering the environment, that’s something.
they had me in the first half