Plastic has been called the miracle product. It’s cheap, versatile and virtually indestructible. Scientists and environmentalists warn we could be overdosing on it, but a Canadian entrepreneur is leading the fight to clean it up.
Michel Berthiaume is the co-founder of OceansUnited, a fledgling not-for-profit company that is focused solely on clearing out the plastics that have become ubiquitous in our oceans. He believes the research in the technology he helped fund will lead to cleaner oceans and a reduction of the amount of waste that gets dumped into them every day.
OceansUnited’s plan to make a difference is built around a technology called hydrothermal liquefaction, which uses extremely high temperatures to liquefy certain plastics and convert them into biofuel, which can then be turned into diesel fuel.
But the technology needed improving, so they spent millions having Canadian scientists find ways to make it more efficient. What they came up with was a system Berthiaume says can handle all types of plastic. Mike Drolet reports.
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