Landfilled Plastics Could Power 5.2 Million U.S. Households – Waste Mangagement World
Posted on April 2, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalLandfilled Plastics Could Power 5.2 Million U.S. Households – Waste Mangagement World.
Although in the U.S. plastics are made primarily from natural gas, the study says that a growing number of technologies are being deployed in Europe, Canada and Asia that effectively turn non-recycled plastics into crude oil, electricity and other fuels.
In 2008 the amount of NRP (Non recycled) plastics landfilled in the United States in 2008 was estimated at 28.8 million tons (26.1 million tonnes). The chemical energy contained in this material was 807 trillion Btu – equivalent to 139 million barrels of oil or 36.7 million tons (33.3 million tonnes) of coal.
“Plastics have a significantly higher energy value than coal,” explains professor Marco J. Castaldi of the Earth and Environmental Engineering Department of Columbia University and associate director of EEC
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