deplastikisasi (BINASAKAN PLASTIK)
science direct: By Ron Kotrba Shea is working to deploy the GR Technologies Co. Ltd. burner, which gasifies granulated waste plastics, first in Pennsylvania and then elsewhere in the United States. The first U.S. system is being commissioned at a greenhouse in Burgettstown, Pa. Estimates suggest 200 billion pounds of plastic is produced every year. Due to the technical limitations or inconvenience of recycling, only a fraction of that material resurfaces in new plastic products. It takes no imagination whatsoever to throw away plastic and doom it to the fate of a thousand years in a landfill, but plastic waste doesn't just threaten terra firma. The Pacific Ocean is home of the world's biggest landfill: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Air and ocean currents form a huge, slow-moving spiral of debris-mostly plastic-accumulated from all corners of the globe through decades. And unlike biological material, plastic doesn't biodegrade and decompose. Instead, plastic ph...