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First-Ever Plant to Recycle All Forms of Plastic Is in Construction

28 points by elorant 6y ago

mdaniel 6y ago
Between this and the "faster than light" quantum teleportation paper that was posted last week, this must be "see what kind of stuff we can sneak past our editors" month In an effort to be constructive: does someone have a substantial supporting link for the process this article is claiming the company can do?
- Scandiravian 6y ago
  The technique is valid enough. It's already in use at plants built by Quantafuel and they recently send the first batch of oil to BASF in Germany, where it'll be turned into new products. Unfortunately the only articles I could find are in Norwegian or Danish
- aaron695 6y ago
  Mura’s HydroPRS™ process uses our Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor (Cat-HTR™) technology to convert mixed waste plastic back to chemical feedstocks for the manufacture of new plastics. Here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J_7xT11u8A&t=75s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J_7xT11u8A&t=75s Recycling plastic doesn't make sense, it's just the environmentalists movements way of controlling the population at greater frequency through daily routines. But lets say it could work, you certainly don't care about recycling a greater % of plastic, there heaps more around. The only reason you might, would be to make the process simpler. So you could just dump all plastic in and not worry about contamination. What you want is cheaper recycling <--> less energy intensive to get back to the end product. So you'd have to analyse their Life Cycle statement to see if it's legit. There's lots of tricks they could use here. Supercritical water sounds energy intensive, but simpler than multiple machines for different plastics. But I have no idea if supercritical water is already common or not. The process might just be Malibu Stacy with a new hat. You'd need an expert who doesn't believe their own crap.
Scandiravian 6y ago
As far as I know, Norwegian company Quantafuel have already built such a plant in Denmark and a smaller one in Mexico. So it's not the "first-ever" plant of this kind

28 points by elorant 6y ago

Between this and the "faster than light" quantum teleportation paper that was posted last week, this must be "see what kind of stuff we can sneak past our editors" month In an effort to be constructive: does someone have a substantial supporting link for the process this article is claiming the company can do?

Scandiravian 6y ago
The technique is valid enough. It's already in use at plants built by Quantafuel and they recently send the first batch of oil to BASF in Germany, where it'll be turned into new products. Unfortunately the only articles I could find are in Norwegian or Danish
aaron695 6y ago
Mura’s HydroPRS™ process uses our Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor (Cat-HTR™) technology to convert mixed waste plastic back to chemical feedstocks for the manufacture of new plastics. Here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J_7xT11u8A&t=75s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J_7xT11u8A&t=75s Recycling plastic doesn't make sense, it's just the environmentalists movements way of controlling the population at greater frequency through daily routines. But lets say it could work, you certainly don't care about recycling a greater % of plastic, there heaps more around. The only reason you might, would be to make the process simpler. So you could just dump all plastic in and not worry about contamination. What you want is cheaper recycling <--> less energy intensive to get back to the end product. So you'd have to analyse their Life Cycle statement to see if it's legit. There's lots of tricks they could use here. Supercritical water sounds energy intensive, but simpler than multiple machines for different plastics. But I have no idea if supercritical water is already common or not. The process might just be Malibu Stacy with a new hat. You'd need an expert who doesn't believe their own crap.

Scandiravian 6y ago

As far as I know, Norwegian company Quantafuel have already built such a plant in Denmark and a smaller one in Mexico. So it's not the "first-ever" plant of this kind