06 June 2019, Saxony, Dresden: The hand of an employee of Biofabrik White Refinery GmbH holds a ... [+] glass of recycled plastic oil in front of the "WastX Plastic" plant. As fossil fuels produced with very energy intensive production techniques, these fuels are not even close to being low-carbon. Burning fossil plastic fuels will have no place in the carbon neutral economy the Climate Law is working towards.”According to Šerdoner, “claiming that turning fossil plastic into fossil fuels is a solution for climate change is part of a growing greenwashing trend”. "Many member states have expressed interest in fuels from recycled carbon fuels we should expect the accounting to be under stress to provide a helpful answer," Vähk says. No single technology will work for all waste plastics, and the world will need several technology platforms to solve the plastic waste challenge.

Source: Forbes October 08, 2020 04:52 UTC