Consumer societies produce enough plastic waste to power at least 10% of motorized road traffic. Dutch designer Gijs Schalkx grabbed the opportunity and now drives his car on the plastic waste he collects.
  • @eleitlOPMEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    Apologies for shitty illustration quality, it fell victim to their solar-only web server. Should have put up a full quality copy on IPFS as well.

    • 7heoEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Carbon emissions are not the only worry. Because of the chemicals added to plastic, burning it to make fuel creates a lot of nasty air pollution. Nobody in their right mind will propose a switch to cars fuelled by plastic waste.

      However, it is instructive to examine the motives behind this unanimous conclusion. Much of the plastic waste that the Volvo 240 burns burns anyways. Not in cars but incinerators. That is the case for 44% of plastic waste in Europe. That plastic waste burns to produce electricity, which can then charge electric cars. How is that more sustainable than burning plastic on the roof of your car?

      They also added that the process as depicted uses unoptimized (the “de-refiner”) and old (the car) technology, so the the concerns that the CO2 production is high should also be put in perspective