Yet another article on how waste is.... wasted !
When plastics, petroleum based products, are becoming and will continue to become a more and more rare/affordable resource, the only solution we seem to come up with is to look for deeper, harder and at the end, highly risky to exploit oil deposits...
This is supposed to justify things like hydraulic fracturing and drillings at seas to depth where if anything goes wrong... well there's not much we can do about it and it's the real nightmare... (see BP oil spill).
And this seems even more (forgive the word) stupid when we have on land and also on sea (unfortunately) an incredible amount of resources also known as garbage !
Not only these resources aren't just "raw materials", these are already made plastics that for the overwhelming majority of them are perfectly recyclable !
The economical logic would be to collect these highly profitable resources in order to re-use them and set up products life cycles and processes for these products to find efficiently themselves in a re-usable cycle.
But "Homo Economicus" doesn't really exist (meaning men making rational decisions based on business logic and profitability) and as long as we won't stop seing garbage as garbage instead of the treasure and incredible solution that it is... we'll continue to have "Plastic nightmares" articles...
Source and for more info=> http://www.cleantechloops.com/plastic-nightmare/#!
Make it profitable, make it sustainable !
