Plastic 2 Oil turns nondegradable plastic into oil
A proprietary process from Plastic 2 Oil will use plastics from Tennessee landfills to create gasoline, diesel, and other fuels. It can gobble through 1800 pounds of plastic in an hour.
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Solar tower technology recycles plastic into oil
Wow. The Land Art Generator Initiative took inventor Akinori Iti’s idea to convert plastic back to petroleum and figured out how to do it with solar tower technology. They called it Plastikoleum. Not only does this save energy, they think…
Garbage trucks to run on power generated by garbage it collects
Toronto introduces biogas garbage trucks which run on CNG or biogas. They hope to make enough biogas from the garbage to run their entire fleet of 300 garbage trucks. I find technology like this postively inspirational because it takes a…
ecoATM. Automated recycling of cell phones for money
This is brilliant. Take your old cell phone to an ecoATM machine. It’ll determine how much the phone is worth, then issue a receipt you exchange for money at the cashier. It’s like Coinstar, but for electronic devices. They…
LA County Sheriff turns guns into rebar
This has to be one of the most innovative recycling projects in the world. Last Monday morning, Sheriff Lee Baca at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s headquarters announced that 8,300 seized firearms had been destroyed. The following morning they were…