Post by account_disabled on Feb 19, 2024 4:34:08 GMT
Fossil-free plastics
Plastic is part of practically all the products we depend on today . Some of them can be made from other materials, but plastic still plays a crucial role in many areas, including essential items like medical equipment and food packaging. Eliminating plastics is simply not a viable option in such cases. Instead, we need to find new and sustainable ways to produce them.
“Plastic plays a very important role in our lives because it exists in most things. Therefore, we need to find new ways to produce it and sustainable ways to recycle it.”
The plastic is made up of 85% carbon . This carbon must come from somewhere and traditionally this means using fossil fuels like oil. We believe that a new type of plastic production industry is poss Special Data ible and the result can be 100% fossil-free plastic.
A completely new vision of plastics
If carbon dioxide emissions are captured from a biological source (for example, in a biomass or waste-to-energy plant), methanol can be produced in an industrial process using fossil-free hydrogen ( created by electrolysis of water with fossil fuels) free electricity and then converted into a hydrocarbon. This hydrocarbon can then be used to produce plastics. Not using plastic in the future is probably not a preferable option. That's why we're helping to transform industries through electrification and exploring innovative, sustainable ways to produce plastics.
“The new plastic made from biogenic carbon dioxide can be recycled in the same way as traditional plastics. "It can also be chemically recycled and repeatedly broken down into basic molecules to produce new fossil-free plastics."
Plastic is part of practically all the products we depend on today . Some of them can be made from other materials, but plastic still plays a crucial role in many areas, including essential items like medical equipment and food packaging. Eliminating plastics is simply not a viable option in such cases. Instead, we need to find new and sustainable ways to produce them.
“Plastic plays a very important role in our lives because it exists in most things. Therefore, we need to find new ways to produce it and sustainable ways to recycle it.”
The plastic is made up of 85% carbon . This carbon must come from somewhere and traditionally this means using fossil fuels like oil. We believe that a new type of plastic production industry is poss Special Data ible and the result can be 100% fossil-free plastic.
A completely new vision of plastics
If carbon dioxide emissions are captured from a biological source (for example, in a biomass or waste-to-energy plant), methanol can be produced in an industrial process using fossil-free hydrogen ( created by electrolysis of water with fossil fuels) free electricity and then converted into a hydrocarbon. This hydrocarbon can then be used to produce plastics. Not using plastic in the future is probably not a preferable option. That's why we're helping to transform industries through electrification and exploring innovative, sustainable ways to produce plastics.
“The new plastic made from biogenic carbon dioxide can be recycled in the same way as traditional plastics. "It can also be chemically recycled and repeatedly broken down into basic molecules to produce new fossil-free plastics."
