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Plastic Waste May FINALLY Have a Solution! - YouTube
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Technology for a Solar-Punk future.
Airships and hydroponic farms...
there's concepts like biorefinery where we take plastic and agricultural waste and put it into a heavily modified oil refinery and out comes biochar and some chemical feedstocks (e.g. ethylene) for making new virgin-grade plastic. Depending on the design it can be more carbon efficient than carbon capture, but in general these industries use a gigantic amount of energy while producing less plastic and much less gasoline/diesel than a normal oil refinery.