Recycling Single-Use Plastics to Produce Fuel – A Bless from Chemical Experts

Can you think your one day without using polymer or plastic? It’s very challenging, we all have become addicted to polymer precisely single-use or disposable plastic, but very few of us know its severe environmental consequences. 

Around the globe, every minute one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased, whereas up to 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used all-inclusive every year. In total, half of all plastic produced is considered to be used only once and then thrown away. Due to non-biodegradable nature, these plastic trash have adverse impact on environment. Plastic waste is now so abundant in the natural environment that researchers have even suggested it could lead us back to Anthropocene era. Rivers are carrying these plastic wastes to ocean, thus polluting ocean and destroying the marine bio diversity, consequently unbalancing the environment. 

According to United Nation Environment Assembly, more than 8 million tons of plastics flow into the oceans ever year. Now, it has become very essential to invent a chemical conversion process that could transform the world’s polyolefin waste, a form of plastic into some useful products, such as clean fuels and other items in form of recycled products. 

The strategies of expert chemical engineer such as Kang Zhang is to create driving force for recycling by converting polyolefin waste into a wide range of valuable products, including polymers, naphtha (a mixture of hydrocarbons), or clean fuels. Kang Zhang says that chemical engineering technology has the potential to boost the incomes of the recycling industry and shrink the plastic waste stock. 

To live healthy, it is required to be surrounded by a healthy environment. The experts like Kang Zhang have shown their interest in implementing such trash management strategies which will definitely reduce the negative impact of single-use-plastic on environment as well as will offer a great benefit to the chemical industry.

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