{"id":14778,"date":"2011-05-24T07:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T07:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/uncategorized\/dow-chemical-company-generates-energy-from-incinerating-plastic.php"},"modified":"2013-01-24T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T10:00:54","slug":"dow-chemical-company-generates-energy-from-incinerating-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/alternative-energy\/dow-chemical-company-generates-energy-from-incinerating-plastic.php","title":{"rendered":"Dow Chemical Company generates energy from incinerating plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dow-chemical.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dow-chemical.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"295\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/span><br \/>\nWe\u2019ve had <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/recycle\/cocacola-staffs-uniform-recycled-out-of-plastic-bottles-for-winter-olympics.php\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">plastic being recycled<\/a> into a bunch of stuff before. Now, the Dow Chemical Company has struck upon a way to create energy from <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/recycle\/japanese-machine-converts-plastic-into-oil-a-recycling-marvel.php\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">recycled plastic<\/a>! In a pilot test conducted, 96% of energy was recovered from incinerating 578 pounds of used plastic, the equivalent of 11.1 million Btu\u2019s of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/transport\/natural-gas-leakages-can-be-more-polluting-than-oil-and-coal.php\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">natural gas<\/a>, which was in turn used to power up the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/architecture\/a-waste-treatment-plant-that-doubles-as-a-ski-slope-and-promised-night-laser-shows.php\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">incinerator<\/a> at one of Dow\u2019s waste treatment facilities. In an attempt to show the world just how useful used plastic can be, when used as an energy source, the Dow Chemical Company has struck upon a revolutionary way to generate energy and put used plastic to rest in an eco-friendly way.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt seems like a win-win process that could probably help reduce those heaps of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/recycle\/the-problems-of-plastic-recycling.php\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">waste plastic in landfills<\/a> around the world, without having to resort to fossil fuels to power up incinerators!<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/eon.businesswire.com\/news\/eon\/20110523005587\/en\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">EON<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve had plastic being recycled into a bunch of stuff before. Now, the Dow Chemical Company has struck upon a way to create energy from recycled plastic! In a pilot test conducted, 96% of energy was recovered from incinerating 578 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/alternative-energy\/dow-chemical-company-generates-energy-from-incinerating-plastic.php\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Continue reading3 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3709,608],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dow Chemical Company generates energy from incinerating plastic -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/alternative-energy\/dow-chemical-company-generates-energy-from-incinerating-plastic.php\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dow Chemical Company generates energy from incinerating plastic -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We\u2019ve had plastic being recycled into a bunch of stuff before. 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