When can we anticipate the successful cleaning of our seas, and cessation of the toxic pollution we so carelessly create to destroy the world in which we live ?
Such a mass of mixed plastics from all over the world exist in 5 gyres slowly rotating and decomposing in our seas and oceans. Such materials if collected not only clean up the seas and reduce the contamination of the food chain which affects us all , but could provide a valuable resource enabling reduction in either tree felling , or oil extraction by substituting products made with virgin polymers and timber with products made from the estimated millions of tonnes plastic harvest of the sea.
Attempts have been made to recycle two types of plastic only derived and separated from this source designated " Ocean Plastic" . HDPE and PET. For some more information see .
www.fastcoexist.com/1678872/methods-plastic-madness-ocean-trash-to-detergent-bottles
This is just "cherry picking" a single polymer stream for publicity grabbing, green-washing, companies leaving the remaining polymer mixture for unknown destinations
However the real problem lies with the complex mixture gyrating (excuse the pun) in the oceans of the world. The real opportunity lies not with selection of the "easy" polymers HDPE and PET, but with the reuse of ALL polymers recoverable from this mixed "plastic soup".
PFM moulding technology offers that solution, and can simply use the mixture without separation or cleaning (some has already been in the ocean for decades and whilst to some degree degraded, only has salt as predominant contaminant which is not an issue for the PFM process).
Attempts have been made to recycle two types of plastic only derived and separated from this source designated " Ocean Plastic" . HDPE and PET. For some more information see .
www.fastcoexist.com/1678872/methods-plastic-madness-ocean-trash-to-detergent-bottles
This is just "cherry picking" a single polymer stream for publicity grabbing, green-washing, companies leaving the remaining polymer mixture for unknown destinations
However the real problem lies with the complex mixture gyrating (excuse the pun) in the oceans of the world. The real opportunity lies not with selection of the "easy" polymers HDPE and PET, but with the reuse of ALL polymers recoverable from this mixed "plastic soup".
PFM moulding technology offers that solution, and can simply use the mixture without separation or cleaning (some has already been in the ocean for decades and whilst to some degree degraded, only has salt as predominant contaminant which is not an issue for the PFM process).