Hi all, I used to be a PhD in the polymer blends area. I attended a seminar from Melb Uni Chem eng where they were exploring the posibility of converting polymer waste back to high Q feed stocks - methanol, acetone, alcohol, etc. often by pyrolysis.
In our home the majority of the rubbish that goes in the bin (and it is not much at that... seems we have dropped the amount of rubbish by 75% since abandoning the super markets and going to the Vic Market instead) is plastic bags. green scraps go to the chickens or the dog (if she manages to steal them from the bucket) glass, most metal, common plastics (PET, PP, HDPE) bottles go to the recycling. (tetrapacks! they get recycled! how the bloody hell do they manage that!!!) food, animal waste, food contaminated paper, even Al foil goes to the compost. that leaves mostly cling film (ldpe) plastic bags (pe and occasionally pp) and the occasional packaging (PE or PS) and the occasional PVC container... My question is - has anyone found a way to process these in the home? I am inspired by the discussion of wood gassifiers and mixing sawdust with waste oil. surely one could do the same with these materials? - well, being careful to avoid the PVC :-) -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 It's a book. Non-volatile storage media. Everyone should have one. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/46VHAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
