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This picture doesn't exactly show the plastics that I would like it to show, because I haven't been out there myself.
And also, I thought that there would be synthetic polymers, plastics, embedded in the rock.
It's mostly many types of plastics and many types of metals.
And the plastics, we get from oil, which we go to more remote locations and drill ever deeper wells to extract.
Plastics are a whole other story: well less than 10 percent are recovered.
Now most people think that's because plastics are a throw-away material, have very little value.
But actually, plastics are several times more valuable than steel.
And there's more plastics produced and consumed around the world on a volume basis every year than steel.
Plastics have overlapping densities over a very narrow range.
So the traditional ways of separating materials just simply don't work for plastics.
Or they burn the plastics to get to the metals in burn houses like you see here.
They store the plastics on the roofs.
They bring them below those roofs into small workshops like these, and people try very hard to separate the plastics, by color, by shape, by feel, by any technique they can.
So what are we to do about this space-age material, at least what we used to call a space-aged material, these plastics?
So about 20 years ago, I literally started in my garage tinkering around, trying to figure out how to separate these very similar materials from each other, and eventually enlisted a lot of my friends, in the mining world actually, and in the plastics world, and we started going around to mining laboratories around the world.
And in the process, we started recreating how the plastics industry makes plastics.
The traditional way to make plastics is with oil or petrochemicals.
You breakdown the molecules, you recombine them in very specific ways, to make all the wonderful plastics that we enjoy each and every day.
We said, there's got to be a more sustainable way to make plastics.
We take out the things that aren't plastics, such as the metals they missed, carpeting, foam, rubber, wood, glass, paper, you name it.
At the end of this process, we have a mixed plastic composite: many different types of plastics and many different grades of plastics.
We use a very highly automated process to sort those plastics, not only by type, but by grade.
And this becomes the currency of the plastics industry.
It's a material hardener and synthetic estrogen that's found in the lining of canned foods and some plastics.
That includes, of course, the old steel and aluminum but then also the plastics from the fender and the interiors, glass from the windows and the windshield and also the tires.
If we are successful, we will revolutionize the plastics industry.
It was like Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate," right, when he said "plastics," whatever that means, plastics.
I mean, you can think of clothes constructed form renewable biobased sources, cars running on biofuel from engineered microbes, plastics made from biodegradable polymers and customized therapies, printed at a patient's bedside.
It could be liquid fuels, plastics or even synthetic gravel.
These scaffolds are made of a variety of different things, from plastics to naturally derived materials, nanofibers of varying thicknesses, sponges that are more or less porous, gels of different stiffnesses.
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