cnn.com— Australian scientists have developed a technique to use waste plastic in steel making, a process that could have implications for recycling scrap metal that accounts for 40 percent of steel production.
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I think this is a brillian idea. Anything to get more plastic out of the landfills and into some sort of production deserves attention. Even without replacing coal entirely, this is still beneficial to the world. And certainly it should make steel production cheaper (I'd imagine landfill plastics are cheaper than mining coal)....
Why don't they just use plastic to make, well more plastic. I know some good friends who work in a Steel Mill, and it would be very difficult to get plastic heated up that hot.
albertpacinoAug 11, 2005
Amazing +digg
bigboogerAug 11, 2005
I think this is a brillian idea. Anything to get more plastic out of the landfills and into some sort of production deserves attention. Even without replacing coal entirely, this is still beneficial to the world. And certainly it should make steel production cheaper (I'd imagine landfill plastics are cheaper than mining coal)....
g_razorAug 11, 2005
Why don't they just use plastic to make, well more plastic. I know some good friends who work in a Steel Mill, and it would be very difficult to get plastic heated up that hot.
cgreenAug 11, 2005
Recycling is bad for the environment. It takes much more energy to recycle plastic then it does to make new plastic.
drumAug 11, 2005
This will be useful if the process uses the raw trash...otherwise processing costs may make it less cheap than buying bulk plastic.