• beefbot
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    I mean, yeah, vaporizing anything means it turns to nothing but gas?

    • coyotino [he/him]English
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      Importantly, it turns it into gas which is useful for manufacturing new plastic.

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        Oh! Thanks , I knew someone had the time to read it; with a headline like that I wasn’t’nna be arsed

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    Nope.

    Bad title, you are wrong!

    What is actually going on is that researchers have found a new way to recycle polypropylene and polyethylene.

    The current process releases a lot of methane during recycling of the plastics, but now researchers at Berkeley univercity have found a new way of using catalysts that turn the plastics into gas, which makes it easier to recycle.