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Science & Technology
The future of recycling? Scientists develop a method to convert waste plastics into JET FUEL in less than an hour
2021-05-18
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Washington State University experts are looking to commercialise their method

  • It converts polyethylene to jet fuel and other valuable hydrocarbon products

  • Polyethylene, used in plastic bottles, is the most widely used plastic in the world
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  
Master Halifax is sadly dead.
We've attached the prefix 'Late'.
For what he thought was tryptamine,
was actually terephthalate.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-05-18 14:40  

#3  Of course you first have to separate the PET from everything else.
Posted by: magpie   2021-05-18 12:59  

#2  ^N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT or N,N-DMT) is a chemical substance that occurs in many plants and animals and which is both a derivative and a structural analog of tryptamine. It is used as a recreational psychedelic drug and prepared by various cultures for ritual purposes as an entheogen.
Formula: C12H16N2
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-05-18 11:58  

#1  I am currently working on a project to recycle PET plastics. Methanolysis involves the retreatment of PET with methanol, under pressure at around 200°C and results in depolymerisation giving dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) and ethylene glycol (EG). This is then re-combined to produce raw PET that can then be made in to products.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-05-18 10:30  

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