Process called "advanced steam cracking" can turn plastic waste into high-quality plastics
This is according to a research team from As detailed in the journal “Through finding the right temperature — which is around 850 degrees Celsius — and the right heating rate and residence time, we have been able to demonstrate the proposed method at a scale where we turn 200 kilograms of plastic waste an hour into a useful gas mixture that can then be recycled at the molecular level to become new plastic materials of virgin quality,” Henrik Thunman, an energy professor at Chalmers, said. This is because their recycling process follows the same method used to make brand new plastic...