Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Current Event 3/21/12

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/on-our-radar-environmental-protest-in-moscow/

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/19/147506525/startup-converts-plastic-to-oil-and-finds-a-niche

A company in Niagra Falls has created a machine that turns plastics into efficient oil. Milk jugs, plastic bottles and grocery bags put into a machine to get vaporized and melted together. 90 Percent of plastics come out as oil, making the process highly efficient. The process works by rearranging the plastics hydrocarbon chains. Each barrel of oil costs about $10 to produce. JBI can sell it for around $100 through a national distributor.

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