Waste-to-energy proves a viable alternative for non-recycled plastics

Win enough fuel to power six million cars for an entire year: A new study conducted by the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University and sponsored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) has found that if all the non-recycled plastics currently dumped into landfills each year in the United States were converted to energy using currently available technologies, they could provide at least enough energy to fuel those six million cars for a year, and potentially much more.

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