Indeed, and it's no ecologically worse than burning the fossil fuel (usually oil) directly... when done in a proper plant with flue gas conditioning.
I think the unidentifiable or unrecyclable plastic waste we generate should be seen not as a pollutant, but as a feedstock. After all, the plants already exist to take crude oil etc and turn them to useful stuff. Catalytically cracking stuff that can't be directly recycled would stave off the end of fossil fuels
Indeed, and it's no ecologically worse than burning the fossil fuel (usually oil) directly... when done in a proper plant with flue gas conditioning.
I think the unidentifiable or unrecyclable plastic waste we generate should be seen not as a pollutant, but as a feedstock. After all, the plants already exist to take crude oil etc and turn them to useful stuff. Catalytically cracking stuff that can't be directly recycled would stave off the end of fossil fuels
