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Pastimes : Plastics to Oil - Pyrolysis and Secret Catalysts and Alterna
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To: scion who wrote (25145)5/27/2012 3:32:05 PM
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Plastics are gradually replacing metals as the main component in America's products. More plastic and less metal will mean more waste as these products become obsolete unless plastics are recycled as completely as metals are now. Recycling plastics waste into usable products offers an alternative to more expensive virgin plastics. In a single year, Argonne's process could recover more than 300 million pounds of high-value plastics for reuse, save 1. trillion Btu in energy, and avoid disposal costs of $20 to $40 per ton of residue. The estimated market values of the products that Argonne has recovered so far are $0.40 per pound for ABS, $0.20 per pound for HIPS, and $0.15 per pound for PP. The process can be applied to recover other plastics from waste streams in a variety of industries.

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