Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself (techxplore.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2023 20:00
https://lemmy.world/post/5246960

Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself::Hydrogen is viewed as a promising alternative to fossil fuel, but the methods used to make it either generate too much carbon dioxide or are too expensive. Rice University researchers have found a way to harvest hydrogen …

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treefrog@lemm.ee on 17 Sep 2023 20:33 next collapse

Would be nice to see more plastic actually recycled.

Of course, not sure how many microplastics this process leaves behind. I have some biodegradable plastic bags for mycology sitting on a shelf because I don’t want to be feeding my vermicompost microplastic.

BlueBockser@programming.dev on 17 Sep 2023 21:18 collapse

Yeah, microplastics seem to be overlooked too often when people talk about plastic recycling “solutions”. The worst one I’ve ever seen was a video where they cut a plastic bottle into strands and then made a broom out of them…

ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2023 21:27 collapse

It’s much better than making a new broom out of plastic. It also avoids carbon melting the plastic into pellets then remelting into a new mold.

tdawg@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2023 00:01 next collapse

Crazy that people always forget it’s Reduce, Reuse, and only then recycle. Like great let’s collect all the plastic from the ocean and repurpose it but if we keep dumping more into the ocean only to recycle it later we really aren’t solving the core issue

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2023 07:32 next collapse

Yup. The list is in that order for a reason!

mint_tamas@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2023 10:19 collapse

Also, avoiding waste entirely is the only sustainable solution. Recycled plastic items are inferior in quality and then end up in the ocean as microplastics.

hobovision@lemm.ee on 18 Sep 2023 07:20 collapse

Maybe it could, but it won’t.