United States Mixes Aluminum and Plastic Waste and Manages to Produce Gasoline and Diesel without Relying Directly on Oil

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Every year we manufacture more than 400 million tons of plastic and a significant part ends up becoming waste in a very short time. On a global scale, the plastic economy remains far from circular, with very low real recycling rates and a huge weight of landfills and incineration. In this context, a team from the United States Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has taught a different route to treat polyethylene, the pla…