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$10,000-Gizmo Lets You Turn Plastic Bags Back Into Petroleum

Posted February 18, 2011 8:18 AM

From Discover Magazine | rsslist:

You could be spared the guilt of forgetting your eco-friendly cloth shopping bag on the trip to the grocery: A Japanese inventor has created the first home recycling system that can convert all those extra plastic bags back into oil.

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Re: $10,000-Gizmo Lets You Turn Plastic Bags Back Into Petroleum

02/18/2011 4:06 PM

Neat but the odds are if it sells for $10,000 it probably only costs around $500 to make if that.

Being basically a plastics gasifier and condenser system I could probably make my own for considerably less than the $500 estimate.

One more experiment to add to next summers things to play with list!

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Re: $10,000-Gizmo Lets You Turn Plastic Bags Back Into Petroleum

02/18/2011 11:33 PM

Why does this sound suspiciously like a conventional still?
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02/19/2011 2:06 AM

I'm thinking that at some point you're going to have to clean some really nasty black goo out of this thing and what do you do with that toxic mess?

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02/20/2011 9:31 PM

If it turns only $1000 worth of scrap plastic bags back into oil, it probably won't catch on. (Unless fools and/or taxpayers subsidize it.)

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