What to do with the tons of plastic trash that pile up around the world has long been a problem with seemingly few solutions. Now, one Japanese entrepreneur has developed a way to turn plastic back into Oil. Plastic-to-plastic recycling is the optimum way to reuse plastic trash, but that method is fraught with problems of its own. You can't commingle plastics, which means that once the plastic is collected (using big, gasohne-burning garbage trucks in most cities where central recycling is done), it must be taken to the sorter, where dozens of people separate the plastic trash by hand.
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