Andrew Price
Former Web Editor, GOOD.is
- August 23, 2010 • 3:30 pm PDT
- 1 responses
We're getting closer to a Back to the Future-style Mr. Fusion machine. Akinori Ito, of the Blest Corporation, has made a gizmo that turns plastic trash back into oil.
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Now clearly, we want to reduce the amount of fossil fuels we burn. The energy reclaimed form this plastic isn't clean. It still releases carbon. (In fact, in a perverse sort of way, making plastic can be thought of as carbon sequestration.)
But we are stuck with a certain need for oil in the short term, and this machine could provide a much more resource-efficient way of getting it (while reducing our mounting piles of plastic trash) than drilling in the ocean or elsewhere.
Thanks, Isis!
