Nigel Dyer wrote:
Fixing it requires a change in the culture of collecting waste in a number
> of Asian and African countries.
Maybe not culture so much as garbage trucks and waste handling facilities.
Japan is Asian. In the 1960s and 70s when I first went there, the streets
were filthy and ai
Yes Nigel.
Poor countries do dispose all garbage into the sea. See Haiti, which has a
system of stocking drainage ditches with garbage, then next rain fixes the
problem The collection is made and then dispursed into the sea.
Lennart
On Sat, May 26, 2018, 04:40 Nigel Dyer wrote:
> There have been
There have been some studies about this, covered in a recent Scientific
American article
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-s-oceans-clogged-by-millions-of-tons-of-plastic-trash/
Most of the plastic in the oceans comes from rivers in Asia and Africa.
The problem is that there is
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 25 May 2018 22:30:58 -0400:
Hi,
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> wrote:
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>> Plastic bags are made primarily of hydrocarbons.
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>> 1. Dissolved in a solvent, they might make a useful diesel fuel.
>> 2. Bundled and compressed the bags might be burned instead of coal.
wrote:
> Plastic bags are made primarily of hydrocarbons.
>
> 1. Dissolved in a solvent, they might make a useful diesel fuel.
> 2. Bundled and compressed the bags might be burned instead of coal.
> 3. Added to a blast furnace, they could replace, or augment coal.
>
Trash inciner
Hi,
Plastic bags are made primarily of hydrocarbons.
1. Dissolved in a solvent, they might make a useful diesel fuel.
2. Bundled and compressed the bags might be burned instead of coal.
3. Added to a blast furnace, they could replace, or augment coal.
4. Subjected to pyrolysi
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