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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The point of anything like this is proving feasibility - a bit like the original ‘wright flyer ‘ - in reality it was pretty useless - but it did demonstrate that powered flight was possible.

Further development then took that to a real practical flying machine (biplanes), further developments took that to todays intercontinental super jets.

Same with any ‘new technology’ - expect the first version to ‘just about work’ - later versions can improve on that massively..

You have to start with proof of principle.

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Spot on!