Forget recycling. Let’s turn old plastic into fuel.

Grist
By Samantha LeeJul 8, 2016, 6:07 am45 pts
Plastic is a big problem, like, bigger-than-Texas big. Giant islands of plastic trash — one in the North Pacific Ocean is estimated by some to cover an area twice the size of the Lone Star State — are accumulating at sea, with some 9 million metric tons added to the oceans in 2015 alone. That’s a…

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