Engineering360: "Transforming single-use plastic into value-added products"

Wow!

From plastic bag to fuel production - with less waste! Thank God that someone figured out how to do this. My hat is off to you!

Not to burst any bubbles but just how expensive would this process be? I noted the word "Platinum" in the article.

Is it even conceivable for wide scale use?

I would like to know a great deal more about this process and any other such process that would send plastics to a better end. I have had to send tons of plastic waste to the landfill and have found no better alternative. Such things as plastic solar pool water heaters that have disintegrated to point of leakage made from black ABS? Also old plastic 5 gal. buckets - here in AZ they last about a year or 2 before "biodegrading" and breaking. I send them to recycling but suspect they wind up in the landfill. Also old batteries, the AAs and AAAs that are so prevalent. I have saved years worth hoping someone would find a justifiable way to recover the raw materials from them but am always told best to just trash them. Doesn't seem right.

Oh Look, petroleum products without the dirty oil well. Keeping the same problem going until we die.