Green process?
But just how “green” is this process when it produces fuels that pollute just like any other?
"Maybe the sequestration of carbon into a plastic bottle dumped in a landfill is better than converting it to liquid fuels and releasing, mobilizing a whole lot of carbon," says Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council. He says plastic-to-oil technology is still new and evolving, and there's not enough data to determine whether or not the process is friendly to the environment. And the jury's still out on whether converting plastic to oil can even be considered "recycling." So says Carson Maxted with Resource Recycling, the plastic recycling industry's trade journal.
A handful of plastic-to-oil companies have cropped up in the past decade, each with its own method. Maxted says JBI is among the budding industry's top tier partly because the company does something few other firms have been able or willing to do: utilize virtually all types of plastics. "They're getting value from something that would otherwise go to the landfill, the plastics that are not easily recycled, they're of low quality or of mixed plastic types, or that they're dirty," Maxted says. "Things that wouldn't be accepted into a recycler."
And since there's no lack of plastic waste or demand for oil, Maxted says JBI's recycling technology has the potential to transform both industries.
ขอบคุณคับผมมม
ช่วยแปลบทความนี้หน่อยคับบบ ผมแปลแล้วมันอ่านงงๆ
But just how “green” is this process when it produces fuels that pollute just like any other?
"Maybe the sequestration of carbon into a plastic bottle dumped in a landfill is better than converting it to liquid fuels and releasing, mobilizing a whole lot of carbon," says Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council. He says plastic-to-oil technology is still new and evolving, and there's not enough data to determine whether or not the process is friendly to the environment. And the jury's still out on whether converting plastic to oil can even be considered "recycling." So says Carson Maxted with Resource Recycling, the plastic recycling industry's trade journal.
A handful of plastic-to-oil companies have cropped up in the past decade, each with its own method. Maxted says JBI is among the budding industry's top tier partly because the company does something few other firms have been able or willing to do: utilize virtually all types of plastics. "They're getting value from something that would otherwise go to the landfill, the plastics that are not easily recycled, they're of low quality or of mixed plastic types, or that they're dirty," Maxted says. "Things that wouldn't be accepted into a recycler."
And since there's no lack of plastic waste or demand for oil, Maxted says JBI's recycling technology has the potential to transform both industries.
ขอบคุณคับผมมม