Scientists at the University of Warwick have developed a technique that will recycle all plastics including polystyrene.  In many municipalities people sort their garbage into recyclable and non recyclable types of plastic.  Once Warwick’s new method becomes implemented world wide, that sorting can cease. 

The technique used is called “pyrolysis (using heat in the absence of oxygen to decompose of[sic] materials)”.  The scientists created a unit that “used pyrolysis…in a ‘fluidized bed’ reactor”.  Mixed plastics of all types were tossed into the reactor and many were reduced down to building blocks that could be recycled into new materials.

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