Plastic Bag Hack in NY Times
Another hack from the NY Times, which suddenly seems to be edging its way into worldhacking territory:
A Plastic Wrapper Today Could Be Fuel Tomorrow.
From the article:
Scientists worldwide are struggling to make motor fuel from waste, but Richard Gross has taken an unusual approach: making a “fuel-latent plastic,” designed for conversion. It can be used like ordinary plastic, for packaging or other purposes, but when it is waste, can easily be turned into a substitute diesel fuel.
Not bad! Similar conceptually to Abe’s comment on Bags is a Hard One, and also to The Edible Bag, namely that we should be designing plastic bags to be disposed of in a way that delivers energy back into the system after use.
