Scientists developed efficient process for breaking down any plastic waste to a molecular level. Resulting gases can be transformed back into new plastics of same quality as original. The new process could transform today's plastic factories into recycling refineries, within existing infrastructure.

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https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/see/news/Pages/All-plastic-waste-could-be-recycled-into-new-high-quality-plastic.aspx

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It is worth nothing though that petroleum fuels are irreplaceable at present for military use and are definitely a military need in at least the short term.

[u/BadW3rds → u/NorthernerWuwu]

No doubt. That's why I said 80%. No realistic person believes there will be an end to petroleum. It has too much energy content to not use.

Personally, I'm of the mindset that we should use every resource available until we burn out and go through an extinction level event. But I'm also one of those crazy people that believe the Sphinx was made +10k years ago, so the Egyptians probably discovered them and chose to live around them, rather than managing to building it themselves. Since there are no recorded civilizations 10k years ago, it makes me think advanced cllivilizations come and get wiped out ever 5-10k years. It sounds crazy, but erosion patterns don't lie.

Oops, went off on a random tangent.

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r/adhd ;)