I was in one of the rough back alley souks in Morocco and there are some people waiting outside a shop, and what this shop does is rip the sole off your sneaker, coat both sides with lighter fluid set them ablaze and then sandwich them back together. seemed to work.
it's all about looking Green, not one cares about the reality.
This one is right in your wheelhouse and well written. I suspect that if Dow was chasing an award, it wouldn’t be for brand trust, but for an extra bullet in the ESG section for investors. WDYT?
I stumbled across your post in Notes this morning. Interesting.
I know next to nothing about petroleum based polymers, but I've always been fascinated with the problems associated with their recycling. I'm sure to a chemist there is an obvious explanation, but I've never understood why, when these polymers are basically two, three maybe four base elements, those bonds can't be broken, and the base elements reconfigured.
In other words, (since I obviously have no idea of how it all works), why can't PET, PVC, HDPE, LDPE, PETE, PE, PP, PS ,..... be souped together and then refined out into what ever is desired? In other, other words, turn it all back into crude, and refine the sludge into something useful.
Ah, the "holy grail" of de-bonding on command. :) So many potential use cases for such feature...
Thanks for another quality article, Tony!
I was in one of the rough back alley souks in Morocco and there are some people waiting outside a shop, and what this shop does is rip the sole off your sneaker, coat both sides with lighter fluid set them ablaze and then sandwich them back together. seemed to work.
it's all about looking Green, not one cares about the reality.
This one is right in your wheelhouse and well written. I suspect that if Dow was chasing an award, it wouldn’t be for brand trust, but for an extra bullet in the ESG section for investors. WDYT?
I stumbled across your post in Notes this morning. Interesting.
I know next to nothing about petroleum based polymers, but I've always been fascinated with the problems associated with their recycling. I'm sure to a chemist there is an obvious explanation, but I've never understood why, when these polymers are basically two, three maybe four base elements, those bonds can't be broken, and the base elements reconfigured.
In other words, (since I obviously have no idea of how it all works), why can't PET, PVC, HDPE, LDPE, PETE, PE, PP, PS ,..... be souped together and then refined out into what ever is desired? In other, other words, turn it all back into crude, and refine the sludge into something useful.