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My parents have a neighbor whose house is literally made of plastic, aside from a few structural supports. You could spray this on his house and 10 hours later,
by eloff 7y ago
My parents have a neighbor whose house is literally made of plastic, aside from a few structural supports. You could spray this on his house and 10 hours later, goodbye house ( assuming it is PET plastic, I have no idea.)
- cmrx64 7y agoDon't be histrionic, the PET they did this with wasn't in large chunks, it was processed into a powder (with particle sizes between 200-500 micrometers). This enzyme would be less harmful to their house than rubbing it with acetone.
- ScottBurson 7y agoWas it 3-D printed? I was going to say that it probably isn't PET, but a bit of Googling quickly turns up articles about people making houses out of recycled plastic. If that's what it is, it could well be PET.
- eloff 7y agoMore like big, hollow 2x4 beams of plastic arranged vertically and interlocked. Could be recycled, I don't know for sure.
- mattkrause 7y agoI suspect that your parents' neighbor would already be unhappy if someone smashed their house into micron-size particles, heated it to 155˚F and kept it there for many hours. At that point, not having the PET broken down into monomers is a pretty lousy silver lining. (Seriously though, it needs fairly particular conditions to work.)
- rsynnott 7y agoIf you're heating the whole house to 65 degrees, as required, that is probably the least of their worries. And it's not like the ability to dissolve plastic is new; there are plenty of solvents which will do this for various plastics.