According to Global Research Corporation, it sure can. Through microwave technology they have created a machine (The Hawk 10) that takes plastics and converts part of the hydrocarbons that they consist of, breaking them down into deisel oil and gas! Wow, after my very sad Plastic Soup morning (read mourning) the other day, this comes as very inspiring news. Thanks to ‘Uncle B’ who commented and shared this information!

According to Popular Science, the first commercially available Hawk 10 will be introduced in February.

Every hour, the first commercial version will turn 10 tons of auto waste—tires, plastic, vinyl—into enough natural gas to produce 17 million BTUs of energy (it will use 956,000 of those BTUs to keep itself running).

The inventor, Frank Pringle is a genius and modern day hero who came up with the idea one day when he drove by a large tire fire and pondered the amount of energy being released.

According to Global Research Corp website, this energy recovery technology operates in a vaccume, thus nothing is released into the enviornment during the process.

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Wow – who says there isn’t any good news out there?  We’ll definitely keep an eye on this technology!  I’m really interested to hear readers comments on this.  Is anyone else familiar with new advances in science like this one?