How plastic could be part of energy solutions
I recently heard about a man who has invented a remarkable machine that turns plastic into oil. His name is Akinori Ito and he works for Blest Company. In a YouTube video about him, he explained that as a child he loved playing outside, but had no concept of the environment. But once he had children of his own and saw how much less open space they had to play in, he became acutely aware of the problem.
In the clip he says “we,” which means that he and his colleagues got together and came up with the realization that modern technology could be used to turn plastic into oil. “It’s not hard,” he said, “after all, plastic is originally made from oil, so why not reverse the process and extract oil out of plastic?”
This story should be getting some attention, if true.