The Friday Video: Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil

Here's an idea to convert the El Paso city flag into oil. The city flags, of course, are all of those plastic bags from the grocer or other retailers. You can see them flying on ocotillos, chollas, yucca, sotol. They flap from all of El Paso's beautiful chain link fences. This invention doesn't just do shopping bags but all plastics. Of course, a city that talks sustainability and tauts being a Tree City USA for window dressing and a city that scuttles bike share behind closed doors in order to get a temporary fix to move some traffic on the bridges, is probably not the city that will have the vision to utilize this technology. But one can hope. The big hope, the big positive . . . is that all those twenty and thirty somethings who see a sustainable future and know how to get there are our future.

Here's the video with a hat tip to Judy Ackerman: 


Visit http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/plastic-to%20-oil-fantastic/