History Fragments: Recycling Plastic
A US company is taking plastics recycling to another level – turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas.
All that is needed, claims Global Resource Corporation (GRC), is a finely tuned microwave and – hey presto! – a mix of materials that were made from oil can be reduced back to oil and combustible gas (and a few leftovers).
Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back To Oil, New Scientist, 26th June 2007
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