[GreenYes] Re: Panasonic Uses Catalytic Reaction...

["Thomas Shelley" <tjs1@no.address>]

At 07:24 AM 2/27/2008 -0700, you wrote:

they have different definitions of "recycling" and "zero waste" in Japan it would appear.

February 26, 2008

Panasonic Uses Catalytic Reaction to Decompose Plastics Into Harmless Gas for E-Waste Recycling

Dear Anne Friends--Hummmm.....  Yes, and I am really dubious that his is "environmentally friendly" and that no "harmless gases" are produced.  Seems like another wasting route to me, instead of a more closed-system recycling approach.  And CO2 is not a harmless gas, as we are all well aware.  And what is re "leakage" of the vinyl chloride past the scrubber described?  Tom

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Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987

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