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 …
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
treefrog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Would be nice to see more plastic actually recycled.
BlueBockser@programming.dev 1 year ago
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 1 year ago
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.