This is all a vague understanding but i believe we're doing something similar with our new waste to energy plant. There's talk about something called single stream recycling ? You pitch it in the trash and it all gets sorted out at the facility by machine ? Sort of like a shredder at the scrapyard i guess.
The idea is that the plastics get pulled out and pelletized. The pellets are used as feedstock to run a boiler that powers a generator.
It makes sense. The plastics started out as oil. Why not let them finish out their life as fuel ?
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