Plastic Waste May FINALLY Have a Solution!
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Plastic has become synonymous with modern human life. We use it in almost everything single product we touch and use, each and every day. And there has been SO much innovation and R&D spent on making plastic better. But what about at the end of life? How do we deal with the huge amounts of plastics being produced around the world? I wanted to figure out the scale of this problem, and why its such a challenge. I can't believe how much I learned by partnering with Aduro Clean Technologies, so let's see if we can figure out Plastic Waste Recycling, together!
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Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
2:05 - The Plastic Challenge
3:15 - Types of Plastic
3:50 - Types of Recycling
6:10 - Chemical Recycling
10:00 - Why it matters
11:00 - The Future
13:00 - Regulation & Standards
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@TwoBitDaVinci Місяць тому
Check out Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. (CSE:ACT | OTC:ACTHF) geni.us/Aduro
@bowdlerise Місяць тому
Two Bitcoin da Vinci
@scottfraser706 Місяць тому
Is this the company that was melting down old pop bottle and made that plastic house in nova Scotia? And why doesn't our carbon tax go to companies like this one
@bartroberts1514 Місяць тому
While I applaud the initiative, we need to talk about backstopping plastic recycling with making plastic waste into beads to aggregated in concrete. Sequestered essentially forever, no incineration, and useful to make concrete lighter and better insulating. Plus, uses very little energy. Used in geopolymer concrete, can be net carbon negative.
@scottfraser706 Місяць тому
@@bartroberts1514 wow I didn't even know that was a thing cool and hopefully that happens soon
@bartroberts1514 Місяць тому
@@scottfraser706 This is all part of the 'circular economy' compared to the 'flow economy' modelling for materials. It'd be ideal if all materials were on a donut path, so nothing's 'waste', just at a different stage in its use in the marketplace. Since we can't make some things that way, yet, a graceful exit like glassification (sealing materials up in tiny durable beads as cheaply as possible) and using them like gravel in concrete is a more reasonable backstop than landfill. The thing is, what Aduro makes is far more high value per kg than aggregate for concrete, so it's preferred, for the part of the plastic stream it works on, if economical. Eventually, concrete breaks down, but it can be used as aggregated for future concrete. Another donut. Compostable PLAs -- 3D printable and safe for beverage cups, but not long term liquid containers -- are also circular. Another donut.
@thomassmith7542 Місяць тому
Aduro has been nominated for the renewable material of the year award at the biggest chemical recycling conference in the world in Germany The leading nominees will be chosen in June . Only 6 companies in the world. This tech hopefully is a true game changer
@rkatz69 Місяць тому
It isn't; there's also a dozen companies attempting the same thing. Every time you ask critical questions about scalability and economical viability the conversation stops.
@Volkbrecht Місяць тому
@@rkatz69 And not just attempting. The research into applications has progressed quite far, and everyone who tries it runs into the same unavoidable problem: over time the reactors clog with a toxic tar made up of the dirt that's clinging to the plastic and all the additives used for whatever product the plastic comes from. It's by far not just bottles and fruit packaging.
@MyAnimeTL Місяць тому
Well therefore are are reactors which can clean themself -> you need to look up screw reactors whichare also used for plastic pyrolysis
@ts8960 Місяць тому
@@rkatz69 the difference between aduro and other companies is that their technology 1) works 2) is scalable and lenient to each company's use case. Their technology is years ahead of any other company in the field
@tw8464 29 днів тому
Cross fingers.
@teardowndan5364 Місяць тому
The first time I have heard of companies trying to do anaerobic decomposition of plastics back into what are effectively refined crude products was something like 20 years ago, back when Discovery Channel was still worth watching.
@YoutubeWatcher264 Місяць тому
Yeah
@rkatz69 Місяць тому
yep and it still doesn't scale or compete with the cost of virgin plastics. Maybe in a world where energy would actually be cheap.. maybe.
@Volkbrecht Місяць тому
Not surprising. The chemical process is not so far off from dealing with the sump fraction of crude oil crackers. But as someone working in the research industry, I saw a lot of steam being applied to this idea in the past 6 to 8 years. Every big player in chemistry and waste recycling is doing this stuff now.
@EdT.-xt6yv Місяць тому
Plastic recycling is the same as fusion energy ?
@rosajucglaserra4506 Місяць тому
Lies. Lies. Only lies
@mattz4229 Місяць тому
This is a game changer on a level I don't think this world has seen in an extremely long time. I hope for the future this isn't going to be a flash in the pan.
@jonduke4748 Місяць тому
buy some shares.
@RichardDuncan-ju1xk Місяць тому
Have you not learned? All this stuff dies when the funding runs out.
@charlieclelland5895 Місяць тому
@@RichardDuncan-ju1xk The hard step is going from demonstration to fully operational plant. Licella had no interest from politicians or environmentalists in Australia even though they had a demonstration plant but their technology was picked by Mura Technology in the UK. Mura's 20,000 tpa plant in Teeside is in startup mode. The only reason the Australian plant got up was the collapse of a much hyped soft plastic recycling company - the PR disaster was of such proportions that supermarket chains and packaging companies fell all over themselves to get a Licella plant running.
@MinusMedley Місяць тому
He doesn't answer the question at the end, why not standardize the process? Make it open source so more people can work on the tech, that patent will keep the industry down all the same.
@frosty_mentos1238 Місяць тому
@@MinusMedleyCause capitalism, and they want money ofc.
@dannyfowler7055 Місяць тому
I used to work in the plastics industry, what many don’t realize is how much petroleum is used in that manufacturing process. In short, we can save our fuel as well by recycling. Great show Ricky!
@filonin2 Місяць тому
Do people generally not know plastic is made from fossil fuels?
@gorkyd7912 Місяць тому
We could also save petroleum by burning the plastic as fuel.
@joelrunyan1608 Місяць тому
@@gorkyd7912plastics ARE petroleum
@gorkyd7912 Місяць тому
@@joelrunyan1608 We burn diesel, coal, gasoline, natural gas, propane, methane to generate electricity, heat buildings, and drive vehicles. These products are either mined separately or made from the same crude oil from which plastics are made. But we either throw plastics in a landfill where they slowly degrade, or we burn a bunch of fuels for electricity we use for the arduous recycling process. We should just incinerated the plastic as fuel directly instead of pretending we're saving plastic when we're burning other fossil products to recycle it.
@wisenber Місяць тому
@@gorkyd7912 We were burning landfill plastics and landfill methane to generate power. Then the carbon emissions became more of a concern than the energy supply. So now we're back to filling up landfills.
@benmcreynolds8581 Місяць тому
It really gets annoying that we are capable of SO MUCH but it always comes down to [it doesn't make money or it costs too much] *it's basically the main thing holding back our society from the capabilities we are actually capable of.
@passurlamer Місяць тому
All the free market advocates need to acknowledge that polluting the atmosphere, land or water bodies comes with an actual cost that should be allocated to business operations in some way.
@fwa8590 Місяць тому
Ah yes, because forcing people to work and giving up their resources for your cause is good right? In the end, money is just a tool to alocate resources.
@jerrebrasfield4231 Місяць тому
Why would someone give their limited time for something that has no effect. In this case you are not just looking at time you also are expecting them to finance the machines and energy for free. Why don't you go do that?
@benmcreynolds8581 Місяць тому
It's not as extreme as y'all think. I'm not saying change our entire way of life. It's just insane how our country has no problem tossing money at certain things but not things like this that can genuinely improve our quality of life in this country.
@hmbro3236 Місяць тому
@@passurlamer the thing is, they do acknowledge that, or at least the ones who are true free market capitalism advocates and not anarchocapitalists. I've talked to alot of economics professors and they usually agree some form of carbon, plastic, or waste tax should be implemented. The problem is that politicians are in the pockets of legacy industries that invest heavily into think tanks, astroturfing, and lobbying to keep the status quo and brainwash sheeps. One of the core principles of capitalism, which is often poorly understood or neglected by many fake free market advocates and libertarians, is that the role of the government in the economy is manage externalities either through tax, subsidy, or regulation. Externalities meaning events or things that arise that disturb the free market/produce a negative outcome. There are many types of externalities such as monopolies, foreign intervention, war, and many others. Climate change and environmental problems are also externalities that needs government to step in to help solve.
@recumbentrocks2929 Місяць тому
When I started working in the late 1970's my boss subscribed to a magazine called Plastic Weekly. Yes it was riviting stuff! 😆Almost every week there would be an article about recycling plastic waste. The problem has always been, it costs too much to recycle. Now that we have mountains of the stuff all over the planet it looks like it has become a viable resource to start using. Lets hope so.
@sparksmcgee6641 Місяць тому
I laughed about the poly styrene line in this. The bulk of Styrofoam means you burn more fuel, moving it to recycling that you can harvest.
@BritishBeachcomber Місяць тому
The UK is working on it, we have bottles with the lid made from the same clear plastic as the bottle, with a retainer that keeps the lid attached when you open it. The plastic film on ready-meal packs is just a single plastic rather than a laminate which tends to leave a layer of film around the edge of the container. Next step? Ban coloured plastic bottles and those squeezy bottles with a valve in the lid. And pump-action bottles, several types of plastic,
@dianapennepacker6854 Місяць тому
What we need to do is standardized all plastics world wide. (Also use colors that don't effect them). Specialized plastics then can be taxed. Medical plastics are good. Yet we should try to make them conform. I've seen tons of companies say they have the solution. So I apologize if I don't believe them till I see it. !remind me 25 years. (Just playing. Wish UKposts had that feature. )
@tarstarkusz Місяць тому
This is very energy intensive. Furthermore, most of the plastic in the oceans is not from the Occident.
@firedrive45 Місяць тому
you are nuts
@crooksgames4511 Місяць тому
I work on the bins, uk isn’t doing anything to help the problem no one is recycling their waste correctly.
@kadmow Місяць тому
- great, sounds good, except "banning" things is a poor way to move the state forward... (big govt. of course sees bans as a one size solution - very short sighted.)
@beccachurch Місяць тому
Wow. I hope this process works on a larger scale.
@ts8960 Місяць тому
It indeed works on a larger scale, the scientists confirmed with confidence that the technology is lenient and scalable to fit each company's use case
@miket2916 29 днів тому
@@ts8960Time will tell... would you give odds, say 1:100,000 on $1000 usd, you seem to be cock sure or else just willing to repeatedly write the same or a nearly identical comment/reply
@ts8960 29 днів тому
@@miket2916 i am confident because i did some deep research into the company. There is no room for doubt
@WeighedWilson 29 днів тому
Don't hold your breath.
@rogermccaslin5963 29 днів тому
You've got $100 million to lay down on a bet? Congrats on your success. Or did you inherit it?@@miket2916
@Justafreesheep Місяць тому
Such an awesome company. I’ve been an early investor for 3 years now and am very excited to see what the team is capable of this year and next. It’s going to be nuts. Lots to look forward to.
@Tsuter1978 Місяць тому
How do you invest? Is it possible at this point?
@danpikulski1624 28 днів тому
@@Tsuter1978 It is a publicly traded company Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. (ACTHF)
@Justafreesheep 27 днів тому
@@Tsuter1978 yep, they’re a public trading company out of Canada. The ticket is $ACTHF in the US
@vinay7397 10 днів тому
how many more years before they make a profit? next year or will we have to wait for another 3 years and then another 3 years.
@falconnm 24 дні тому
Video misses the entire point. Processes have existed to recycle plastic forever. The question is "can recycling be economically competitive with non-recycled". Unless the total cost of handling cleaning processing and reselling is less than the cost of making plastic from hydrocarbons economically it's just a chemistry experiment not a solution.
@baconthevainglorious7371 6 днів тому
I think the main thing here is that if we as a society are able to come together to try and pay more for products just because we know they are taking plastic out of landfills we are gonna be ok. Also, this is great in case we do run out of oil we can go back to all our plastic dumps and turn them back into gas/new plastics.
@uniyuki8712 Місяць тому
I remember finding out plastic can be turned into oil and I was shocked no big scale thing was doing it, I'm glad to hear about this!
@iowa_don Місяць тому
Even aluminum cans have plastic liners so things like carbonated beverages don't eat through them. There are YT videos showing what is left after you dissolve the aluminum from the outside of the can.
@patrickday4206 Місяць тому
I thought aluminum cans has a layer of epoxy not plastic
@kadmow Місяць тому
@@patrickday4206 - don't worry many people think "tin foil" is actually tin, rather than aluminium....
@ronblack7870 Місяць тому
it's a taste issue
@sunso1991 Місяць тому
from what i know, the Aluminum can recycling involves going through a melting process. the high heat burns away the plastic and any food residue. then the aluminum is purified to extract the impurities
@michael-michaelmotorcycle 25 днів тому
It’s now a water based, latex formulation. It’s made by ici, the parent company of most latex paint companies, which is now owned by akzonobel.
@hopegrable Місяць тому
This is such amazing news!! Thank you for making this video and giving us hope that change is actually coming. I would prefer that cities manage their own waste by having their own processing facilities under city management so when these materials get sold back to market, the end cost of the products and packaging it's used to produce is more stable and fair to workers and consumers.
@kjnoah Місяць тому
A still for plastic is smart. Depending on which fraction distilled you can get many plastics.
@tbix1963 Місяць тому
Interesting video, looking forward to seeing the days when plants like this are having trouble getting enough feedstock and start mining the landfills that have been established in previous decades.
@saumyacow4435 Місяць тому
Exactly. There's a huge business in landfill mining. The trick is using surplus renewable energy (the stuff that is now driving down the wholesale cost of electricity at certain times of the day).
@Israel_Two_Bit Місяць тому
That is brilliant. I hadn't thought of that!!
@DawnDavidson Місяць тому
… and scooping up material from the oceans. Can you imagine putting a plant like this on a giant ship, so we could just scoop up the floating plastic and also run the water through the plant to capture microplastics as well? This is so exciting!
@josephpk4878 Місяць тому
This is beautiful. My heart breaks, knowing that the efforts that I put into avoiding and isolating plastics for recycling are only about 0-10% effective... it's pretty deflating. Once this becomes a stable and effective process, they need to find a way to supplement the process with eco-friendly energy. I envision a huge mirror farm in Florida, that concentrates sunlight to use for the heating requirements. Congratulations Aduro Clean Technologies, for your efforts in cleaning up our only planet.
@illbeyourmonster3591 Місяць тому
Pretty much everything related to recycling, enviro mental ism and re newab les is a huge lie covering up an even bigger scam. It's not about as ving the pla net, its about con troll ing you and getting you to go along with it willingly.
@highlandermachineworks5795 Місяць тому
I see a pile of burned and dying birds on that environmentally friendly mirror farm.
@eyesuckle Місяць тому
@@highlandermachineworks5795Could that be because you're always looking for an excuse to do nothing? The cynic's refuge.
@highlandermachineworks5795 Місяць тому
@eyesuckle you wish. Not even close. A smart phone has the world's knowledge just a few clicks away. What's your excuse?
@rkatz69 Місяць тому
The video overhypes the startup, their tech, doesn't ask critical questions and has been disclosed as being a paid advertising for Aduro. What they are doing is not unique, doesn't look very scalable nor can it likely compete with virgin plastics pricing etc.
@tomtompkins6779 Місяць тому
The people making and using and selling the plastic should have to foot the bill for the recycling that only makes sense
@TwoBitDaVinci Місяць тому
Yah full lifecycle cost… sadly many industries skirt this like petroleum and plastics
@saml9581 Місяць тому
You mean the general public who use it?
@George-tz1cv 7 днів тому
And how much do you plan to contribute?
@jordanhildebrandt3705 Місяць тому
Plastics are so important for so many things. Magical materials. It's awesome to see the recycling problem being solved. We seem to be so close to solutions for so many big problems. Thanks Ricky for highlighting practical solutions. Hopefully this company grows and makes a big difference.
@chrismartin3853 Місяць тому
Big time saver solution! So many plastics are sent to other countries with no real solutions. Wishing the best in this company future.
@user-kg5wz7gr7c Місяць тому
About bloody time!!!! Well done guys.
@siameseire Місяць тому
Thank you, Aduro, and everyone working on this!!
@_abdul Місяць тому
This gives me hope. Thanks for making this video.❤
@TwoBitDaVinci Місяць тому
I'm so glad!l, I felt the same way!
@shantaloft Місяць тому
This video addresses a part of the challenges that we face in the plastic issue. I got into 3d printing to learn how one can reuse plastics while they get it together to actually recycle. I quickly learned that 2x4 is more practical here than 3d printing. 3d printing needs the recycled products that would come from the systems Aduro Clean is doing. glad to see that someone is actually using the label and likely the catchup in the bottle to help process the plastic.
@drillerdev4624 Місяць тому
I'd really love to see them pull through to comercial scale. Meanwhile, love the gonzo look of their current prototype. It's like a real world version of a ghibli contraption. And thanks for reinforcing the idea of standard container designs. Companies are skipping that one, and it would be really easy for them to enforce it. That, and getting back to glass while possible. Another step that would be great to see (and I naively believe we're at the moment it be a success commercially) would be for big supermarket brands going for a "minimalistic and sustainable" aesthetic for their own products, using minimum colors and paper over plastic while possible. A true "buy simple, buy green, buy cheap" marketing angle.
@tw8464 29 днів тому
Well said
@tw8464 29 днів тому
Well said. It's not too difficult to imagine a world with much less consumer plastic.
@Israel_Two_Bit Місяць тому
Having 8 patents in a crowded market like plastic recycling where some of the largest companies in the world (big oil) invest some of the largest R&D budgets is quite frankly impressive.
@dekutree64 Місяць тому
But also depressing. Most of the time, a small startup patenting something just ensures that it will never have any impact, because they don't personally have the funds to do it, nobody else wants to pay royalties, and by the time it expires nobody remembers it ever happened.
@thomassmith7542 Місяць тому
Aduro has 5 or 6 multi billion $ companies already interested in them and are part of the customer engagement program. Aduro is looking to turn each into a collaboration this yr at millions each. Companies need solutions by 2030 and Aduro seems to have the goods . Recent press releases show the yield at an incredible 95%
@illbeyourmonster3591 Місяць тому
What happens in 2030?
@Steveo_00700 Місяць тому
Something to do with carbon credits the government issues to companies who produce plastics. I believe by 2030 those credits companies have been given expire. A plastic solution can save companies billions managing the waste produced by their plastics.
@rkatz69 Місяць тому
Now do some independent research, look at competitors (and the once before that), learn why it doesn't scale nor can compete economically with virgin plastics and move on.
@Volkbrecht Місяць тому
They are not the only ones. BASF does this stuff, as does Remondis, and a haggle of other companies. I have been involved in that research (disgusting stuff), and it's probably easier to look for players in that market that don't engage in this game.
@Steveo_00700 Місяць тому
@Volkbrecht , Aduro stock, although speculative at this point, has done very well in the microcap space. My initial investment from less than 5 months ago has made me several thousands of dollars at this point. I'm longing this stock. If what Aduro says isn't true, then I'll pull back on my investment. So far so good.
@EcomCarl 4 дні тому
It's inspiring to see Aduro Clean Technologies tackling the plastic waste crisis with their innovative HCT process, potentially revolutionizing plastic recycling. As awareness grows about the environmental impact of plastic, solutions like these become increasingly crucial in building a sustainable future. 🌱
@charlieclelland5895 Місяць тому
Licella has been operating their trial and development super critical water oxidation reactors on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia for about 15 years. The process is a one step shredded plastic to crude oil process which gives better than 80% yield and sufficient high calorie gas is produced to generate electricity. There is a large Licella plant in the UK and a 20,000 ton per year soft plastic digestion plant is due on stream in Altona, Victoria this year. The Licella process output is very desirable since it is very low sulphur crude oil - highly sought after by refineries.
@scottfarland6795 Місяць тому
Dude! This is exactly what I have had floating through my brain for months, without the necessary intelligence to follow through! Awesome!
@scottfraser706 Місяць тому
Hey you never know maybe you could contact them and trade ideas or maybe even work for them 😊
@dianapennepacker6854 Місяць тому
@@scottfraser706Ideas are cheap. Being able to make it into fruition is where it matters.
@illbeyourmonster3591 Місяць тому
@@dianapennepacker6854 All of this stuff never goes anywhere. Too often good things get ended before they even start due to NIMBY activists that are utterly clueless as to what is being done and why.
@The-Cat Місяць тому
@@dianapennepacker6854 Making big ideas into fruition need a whole lot of luck and resources to get going. "Oppertunity" isn't reachable by everyone.
@marcleblanc2026 Місяць тому
$ACT!!!! yesssssir!! Hydrochemolytic is the FUTURE, we must ,make it the PRESENT SOLUTION.
@marcleblanc2026 Місяць тому
I'm a happy shareholder & adding on any red days!!
@Elvan-Lady Місяць тому
That's pretty darn cool. Here's hoping it gets widespread implementation.
@Matthew-ju3nk Місяць тому
Yes, you DID nail it! This is excellent news and it gives me hope for the future.
@GeoffInfield Місяць тому
Ohhhhh, bit-U-men, I was so confused! Not saying kiwis pronounce it correctly but I've never heard it pronounced like this before, was a relief to see it spelt out. More importantly tho - THIS IS AWESOME!! Man, I thought we were WAY better at recycling already 😢 THANKS DUDE!
@L0000NEY Місяць тому
Yeah I was the same. Like what the hell is Bitterman
@user-hm5zb1qn6g Місяць тому
it comes out sounding like ''BITCH-oo-min" in Canada where we got lots of it.
@Queen-dl5ju 6 днів тому
This is huge! and should be everywhere around the world, all the plastic and oil companies destroying the world should by law be funding this
@jonmitchell2142 Місяць тому
I thoroughly appreciate the effort your team puts into bringing us along to learn. Keep bringing us information, but don't forget the story doesn't stop with an initial glimpse. Would love to see follow-ups ( salt battery, solar roof tiles, energy technologies) including waste recycling. I watch videos to learn mostly and your team does an excellent job. Keep it up.
@totoroben Місяць тому
Here's an idea: reusables. Just get rid of single use plastics and make all containers reusable with washing plants that are independently owned and operated that resell the packages back to the manufacturer for refill. Just use mason jars. Literally all you gotta do. You could make a deposit system if it costs too much money. You could even embed RFID tech into the packaging to speed checkout and inventory and it would be cost effective because it can be washed and reused
@thekamiakai 19 днів тому
They had a system like this on bottles a long time ago where drink bottles would get another glob of glass added onto it before refilling. After 7 uses it was smashed and reformed into a new bottle. However, stores didn't like it because of weight, same with the customer, that's why the industry went to plastic in the first place.
@topherdean1024 7 днів тому
@@thekamiakai You know who made up the complaint about weight? The plastics industry. Here you have a bottle of water, the % of total weight is minimal compared to the contents. If weight were a real issue, there would be no beer bottles. When I was a kid, before water was even filtered, the idea of selling water was unthinkable, unimaginable, who would buy it? Water is free and it's everywhere. There were these things called water fountains, but really, we didn't drink water all that often. We would go into our friends house and get a glass from the tap, but we didn't have to have a bottle with us at all times. We've become like babies with a pacifier, always nursing our water bottles. If we need to have water, put it in a stainless steel container. You can read my post above, but as the president of a Recycling NGO, I can tell you, the only answer to plastic is reduce, it's a terrifying nightmare and the oil and gas industry is drooling over the prospects of tripling production by 2050. As before, it's the oil and gas industry that is pushing recycling. Think about that for a minute. Why would they push for recycling if it were going to cut production of virgin plastic? Hint: it doesn't.
@jperin001 5 днів тому
@topherdean1024 Yeah, and it probably consumes more energy than it saves. Another net gain for oil and gas. Although the idea of recycling is still compelling. I used to be a staunch proponent of aluminum cans, but if the recycling of aluminum consumes more energy than plastics manufacturing then the benefit solely rests in less plastics entering the waste stream while more carb9n enters the air. Reduce and reuse seems to be the best option currently to achieve win win.
@christophersmith5303 Місяць тому
Good video. The same problem is found in Li-ion batteries and it is one of the seemingly insurmountable hurdles to recycling them because there are different chemistries and formulations of similar materials and even metallic nanoparticles so separating them is a challenge.
@PurplePeopleHatter 16 днів тому
the oil industry should absolutely get their hands in this. they could retrieve the products of oil at low price, since most recycling is gov supported, then sell it again either as fuel or plastic again. imagine, they could sell the same oil again and again and again...
@RM-fe6ye Місяць тому
Great stuff! Looking forward to their massive launch and success! Thank you for this amazing topic and informative episode.
@CorvetteAustin24 Місяць тому
Great video! Glad to see someone trying to tackle this problem finally!
@TwoBitDaVinci Місяць тому
I KNOW!!! I had a plastic recycling video on my board for literally 2 years… just waiting for some great story and breakthrough
@heart4Pahoa Місяць тому
I truly do enjoy your selective process for your content. Insightful, educational and challenging. I will for sure be monitoring this recycling process and I hope it becomes a catch all for the plastic reuse initiative that it is being purported to be. Mahalo!
@Israel_Two_Bit Місяць тому
Finally, someone who actually understood the video and this technology's significance!! Thank You!
@tylerfoss3346 Місяць тому
Awesome content, 2BD! Best of luck and good fortune to this exciting science! This old world needs this.
@Heheheh-hm4ei Місяць тому
There is so little information out there about how to tackle the issue of plastic. I appreciate you diving into this subject and finding an innovative and inspirational company like this! Keep up the genuine content
@Jelly010101 Місяць тому
That's Amazing! One of the best things I saw this year
@dfhepner Місяць тому
in 2019 Renewlogy, co-founded by MIT alumna Priyanka Bakaya, is using its system for converting plastic to fuel. But I haven't see anything about them In a long time.
@karmicquarks717 20 днів тому
I love how excited you are about this.
@orazha Місяць тому
Great presentation. I really hope they are successful. I do find some of the comments regarding other plastic recycling puzzling. More than 30 years ago, my wife and I were involved (BOD) with a start up that sounds similar without the benefit of bitumen. We had raw recycled plastics running on conveyor belts straight from the recycle bins. There were stations where the types of plastic were identified and separated using sensors and an air gun (no human involvement) into bins. I don't remember how labels were removed but all plastics were cleaned (no human involvement), ground up and molded into pellets of "pure" resins. These were mixed the way customers wanted and formed into new pellets of the required composition. Our problem was that, while we had interest from large manufacturers which we needed to keep our operation running, it took customers too long to make purchasing decisions and we had to close our doors. But we had the technology then to accurately separate and clean plastics. Also, our pellets came out a very light color. I never saw a finished pellet of the dark or black colors shown. Also, I don't know how the plastics actually held up in finished products which, of course, is the ultimate test of how well the system works.
@dude9081 Місяць тому
Thank you for your awesome videos bro!! 🎉😊
@michaelhiggins9188 Місяць тому
This is an interesting technology. This was an excellent video on how it works. Hopefully, they can turn a profit.
@debratakagawa4764 16 днів тому
Amazing, I hope I continue to hear about the accomplishments of this company.
@ts8960 Місяць тому
aduro is the only company that can solve the plastic crisis. Their technology is lenient and innovative proud of them
@myRefuge3710 Місяць тому
This is awesome. Completely grounded breaking!
@utahstock12 Місяць тому
As long as we're mentioning public companies, HolyGrail 2.0 is a huge project in the EU about to wrap up a multi year study into solving the sorting problem. It's based on technology owned by a company called Digimarc. Would eliminate the need for most manual sorting plus result in much more valuable feedstock since it's more pure. Can also sort food graded from non food grade.
@jonevansauthor Місяць тому
Ok that's a really positive sounding technology. They put a 'digital watermark' on the product, which is linked to a database of its properties, so a sorting machine can identify everything going through it and send it to the appropriate location. Perhaps it'll be faster than AI image based spotting or the two will combine - you could send everything that's bottle shaped in one direction, then scan it to be certain. Uniform shapes would possibly be easier to scan. Might be a good technology for Ricky to cover since sorting waste is a huge part of our problem and we do have massive landfills that will need Optimus to sort through them so we can get rid of them at last.
@AndreasLudwigPhD Місяць тому
Amazing technology. Makes recycling so much easier. Simplifying the behaviour change required to just collecting your plastic. No more sorting. And, most of all, no more doubts if any of the plastics will actually be recycled at the end. That will be huge!
@davidbwa 29 днів тому
This is encouraging. I hope it lives up to its promise. It's hard not to be skeptical after seeing so many other "amazing new solutions" come and go because they either didn't work or were not commercially viable when scaled up.
@Ded-Ede Місяць тому
This is great. They should partner with the other company that make plastics biodegradable
@gustavogargioni7197 Місяць тому
As one that had dedicated 11 years into this problem, this is a great video that feeds hope to finally closing this cycle. Congratulations on covering this issue and hope to hear more from Aduro HCT industrial scale solution.
@extraincomesuz Місяць тому
This is the video I've been waiting for. I knew humans were smart enough to create a way to start reusing plastics. I am grateful you added the segment and gripe we all have of, "Why isn't there standardization?" (I think about this on a lot of products and was happy to see some companies creating plug and play self maintenance on some items -- like laptops). It's encouraging to see that the entire world wants plastics standardized.😊. I shared this on my social media channels.
@MoraFermi Місяць тому
This is an excellent approach! Ways to reduce the energy input into this process have been the main stumbling block, since the whole idea of "Lets chop the polymer apart with heat and protonate them up into straight alkanes" have been floating around ever since plastics became a thing.
@erictaylor5462 Місяць тому
2 issues that were not addressed, and that concerns me: Energy required and non-useful byproduct. Especially if the byproduct is toxic for the environment. Does this process create more issues than it solves?
@highlandermachineworks5795 Місяць тому
Finally someone's awake! The guy wearing a respirator on a machine that's not even online. They're hand feeding it. Scale it up and enter cities will need respirators.
@EliotHochberg Місяць тому
The big question I have: what happens if it turns out that this technology will not make money? Let’s say that it works, but it isn’t financially viable? Then what happens? I realize that we all have to make a living in order to buy food and houses and pay for goods and services.but technology like this could be so fundamental to the survival of humanity and the quality of life that we in the United States currently enjoy, that it concerns me how this will all come out when it’s done with a profit motive.
@sirdeakia Місяць тому
Tech that isn't financially viable and that solves the plastic problem exists and it's widely available. Being economically sustainable (profitable) means there's incentive for individual pursuit of the goal. So we don't need to rely on people wanting to do it, because someone definitely will want for them.
@EliotHochberg Місяць тому
@@sirdeakia i’m sure that’s true, but this company has both a patent and a trade secret on how they do it, so what will happen with that information? I’m wondering if they plan to release it if they can’t make a viable, or if it will get buried either in bankruptcyor some company buying them out and not using the tech
@kameljoe21 Місяць тому
@@EliotHochbergThe problem is the patent and trade secret. They should be getting other people on board and making this tech public. Keeping it to themselves is what will make them money. Once they can not make money it goes away. Because they limit what they can financially do with it. Making it open source and getting other companies who are working on such things to help them they all can make money and expand the knowlage. Its just sad that they are keeping to to themselves to make money. If other companies get in on it and help find outstations to make doing this easy then everyone wins.
@thijs8954 Місяць тому
I am an investor in the company and if it works (which I believe it will) it will definitely make money. Their process has lower capital expenditure, lower operating expenditure and higher yield than current recycling tech, and as mentioned in the video they can handle a lot more plastic types and contaminants...
@kameljoe21 Місяць тому
@@thijs8954The problem will be scaling up. Companies like this just never seem to move beyond these stages. Until they are activly seeking plastic and having plastic shipped to them in massive containers or having said plastic ground at other places all over the country and shipped to them, they will never make any amount of money. It going to be decades before they make any movement because they will always have that one last hurdle to do. They need to work with open source ideas and work with other startups and or companies that are doing the same thing. Working with them will allow them to reach those goals and to jump over hurdles that they just can not do with their current capital.
@RicksPoker Місяць тому
This is great news. Thanks so much for doing this video! Warm regards, Rick.
@fessit 20 годин тому
This is WONDERFUL! I hope this takes off.
@B.-gb2sh Місяць тому
There's already a 100% recyclable product and that's glass and aluminum everything that can be made from those should.
@stefandeuling8838 Місяць тому
Excellent feature, well done. Encouraging, but while we are doing thing, the emphasis should always be to reduce the consumption, I fear the rebound-effect.
@thomasbeach7436 Місяць тому
It's about time! I think about it every time that I throw away a soda bottle or chip bag and I know that it will be going to a landfill and there is nothing that I can do about it short of taking it home and separating all of the plastics and washing out the bottle and putting it in the recycle bin still not knowing whether or not it will end up in a landfill or not. Everybody should be on board with this solution!!! Thanks for the video!!!😊
@1timbarrett Місяць тому
Perhaps we can live without consuming the problematic products you mention…? 🤔
@charlessudom288 Місяць тому
Long overdue process but great to see now. I'm not sure about the economics of this process but certainly sounds better than existing ones.
@PaulADAigle Місяць тому
That's all great, but like previous recycling attempts, they found that the product it transforms into is too expensive to replace the materials they currently use in manufacturing it to begin with. It's not economically viable. There may be a way to change the consumer perspective to allow for an expensive version of plastic that is recycled, or the government may spend money to compensate for the cost difference. It's all still up in the air.
@spocksdaughter9641 Місяць тому
Valuable point made!!
@jonevansauthor Місяць тому
Same thing with solar panels - you just add an up front cost to purchase, which covers recycling. It's super easy, barely an inconvenience and utterly solves the cost problem. Rocket science is not, and it's an already established and perfect solution to the cost problem.
@PaulADAigle Місяць тому
@@jonevansauthor Solar Panels are a different category than our plastic usage. No one will want to pay $10 for a single soda pop.
@adrwong8 Місяць тому
We need to adopt recycling like in Japan where types of plastics are separated by consumers. This would make the recycling industry viable.
@yuryzhuravlev2312 Місяць тому
and burn more than 80%? Some City burn 100% of plastic in Japan. (yeah hello from Japan)
@anthonycarbone3826 Місяць тому
The Japanese consumer is extremely fastidious in making it work. Toothpaste containers are cut in half and all of the remaining toothpaste residue is meticulously cleaned out. Efforts that probably the average American consumer is either too lazy to perform or never educated in how to do it properly. I know everyone loves to cut down fast food workers but there exist fast food workers who take pride in their work and create semi master pieces while the majority perform their job with no pride and the final product displays that lack of pride or professionalism all of the time. This same attitude permeates the work culture all the way up and down into all of the positions that exist in the work force.
@yuryzhuravlev2312 Місяць тому
@@anthonycarbone3826in average Japanese consumer maybe a little more fastidious in making it work BUT not extremely at all!!! Also, in most cases it's useless work - all this plastic will be burn.
@spocksdaughter9641 Місяць тому
@@anthonycarbone3826one of the BEST comments I agree cultural issue!!
@anthonycarbone3826 Місяць тому
@@yuryzhuravlev2312 I do not know your source of information but mine is anecdotal. I lived in Japan for 8 years and my neighbors would inspect my garbage after I put it out for collection. They would then bring it back to me if I did not do it right. Plus the waste companies would hand out language specific placards in different languages on how to prepare and sort the various refuse for various pickup schedules. I know nobody in the the USA who would inspect their neighbors refuse let alone bring it back to them if was done incorrectly.
@danihutch 24 дні тому
This is so amazing! Thank you for sharing this
@JamesSBaker-de6sd 28 днів тому
One of your best and most important videos. Thanks for your efforts ob our behalf.
@Viper6332 Місяць тому
All the worlds major governments need to give these guys a ton of money and help save the planet
@RiversJ Місяць тому
How about No?! They need enough money to make a workable full scale production system and see if it does work as advertised. We do not need an infinite supply of grifters burning billions upon billions which in fact reduces our technological advancement and as such has an indirect negative impact on the environment. Zero trust in any governments ability to manage such things when they mostly do the exact polar opposite of what works in terms of conservation. These guys are great for actually having some competence and putting their money where their mouth is, certainly hope it takes the world by storm.
@thomassmith7542 Місяць тому
@@RiversJagreed government can run shit not even the post office. They give grants to such ridiculous nonsense but here’s a co trying to solve a world problem.
@DeezjaVu Місяць тому
Ehm, how about the companies that actually use and/or produce it instead. "Governments money" = taxpayer money. No thanks...
@1timbarrett Місяць тому
Combined with reduction of our consumption of products packaged in troublesome plastic, we could turn this container ship around! 😅
@jerrebrasfield4231 Місяць тому
Don't forget the plastic wrap on the paper straws and the paper wrap on the plastic straws
@TwoBitDaVinci Місяць тому
Aduro told me even aluminum cans have a plastic coating to deal with the acidic nature of soda! It’s so complex
@TristanTemple-jz8bq Місяць тому
That's very true there is a video of corroding an aluminum can and left with just the internal plastic structure
@davidkendall2272 Місяць тому
Thanks for doing this topic. So very important to solve this vexing problem.
@callyman Місяць тому
Thanks Ricky and Co for a really informative video. Imagine the day we recycle ALL plastics! Im old enough to remember life before plastics
@1timbarrett Місяць тому
I’m old enough too. Most of the plastics that have appeared in my lifetime have been moulded into Stuff we can live without.
@katywalczak9839 Місяць тому
Brilliant
@AllenBarclayAllen Місяць тому
Thanks ..!
@TwoBitDaVinci Місяць тому
No worries!
@felipericketts 15 днів тому
That sounds very promising! I hope they succeed and make their technology work outside the lab at scale.
@paulwatson6013 Місяць тому
Hopefully they can get this to work on a commercial scale. There could be a day where old dumps are actually mined for stuff like plastics. I know at work a lot of the PVC has reinforcement in it. Some seems to have a fibreglass type material in it. Good challenge for em!
@mistermood4164 Місяць тому
we should prioritize banning and reducing plastic.
@davidiscostarica6097 Місяць тому
Great, so you take old bottles and make new bottles. That doesn't change the problem. It is better to burn it in a vacuum to make diesel.
@TristanTemple-jz8bq Місяць тому
Plastic is by far the best product for its uses. 95% yield with this tech. That also doesn't cure the already massive amounts that already exist
@mistermood4164 Місяць тому
@@TristanTemple-jz8bq we should be actively banning the use of single use plastics
@highlandermachineworks5795 Місяць тому
Ban plastic, not guns.
@alaskanight940 Місяць тому
Definitely nailed it. Nice find. Good, clear, informative show. Important topic. 😊
@Emilycatloverdoglover Місяць тому
Well, this gets me very interested. I used to work in the oil sands industry. The way bitumen was extracted from the underground is through thermo process to reduce the viscosity, either by hot water washing/liberating or SGAD so it's not bitumen only. It's always a mixture of water, bitumen and sands. If their catalysts and process can replace thermo cracking or hydrogen treatment which is needed to process bitumen to a lighter product (Canadian Western Select), this will be a real game changer.
@craigsawyer6453 Місяць тому
We have been making and using Glass for thousands of years. We are not swimming in glass. It is 100% recyclable! It is cheaper to recycle metals than to mine them. Plastic is not totally recyclable - ever. This video shows a good step but the best thing to do is to not purchase plastics as much as posable.
@falsificationism Місяць тому
Ooof, 2:20 couldn't disagree more. The production of plastic without a reuse and recapture plan IS, indeed, the problem. That's why it's brilliant if we can come up with a solution. What's even smarter? Not producing plastic until we can come up with a plan. This shouldn't be on consumers obviously...it's a production problem.
@r.d.9399 Місяць тому
Banning dangerous plastics completely is the only way forward.
@jonevansauthor Місяць тому
I think you misunderstood what he was saying. "The way that we handle at the end of the life cycle of the plastic is a problem." Also the guy with the 'banning dangerous plastics' comment is hilarious. We cannot ban plastic and it is not dangerous. There are areas where we could just use less, such as excess food packaging that's just there for the look, or not using plastic in phone packaging because you don't need a fancy box with a magnet and eight types of plastic in it to ship a phone in. But to type a comment on UKposts, you're literally using plastic, probably at a plastic desk with a plastic watch on, and plastic clothes.
@falsificationism Місяць тому
@@jonevansauthor “[plastic] is not dangerous…” I tend to dismiss people who make large, unsubstantiated claims. Particularly when counterexamples can simply be found with a quick internet search. All materials have trade offs, especially fossil fuels. Come on.
@ipp_tutor Місяць тому
Of course! Why didn't anyone think of that before we found 20 million convenient uses of plastics that solved so many of humanity's problems from the bygone days? Dude, you can't just shut plastics down, It's a little too late for that. Our lives literally depend on plastics. Anyone who doesn't believe that is just kidding themselves.
@falsificationism Місяць тому
@@ipp_tutor we can’t do x because reasons and things. I’m so convinced. People are alive today who lived without plastics. Now we have them. If we stopped producing plastics tomorrow we’d still have the plastics we created, and plastics are durable. A pause on production is a modest ask. Humans are adaptable. If an industry needs a waiver (e.g., medical devices), sure why not? What sort of bizarre, catastrophic future are you fantasizing about to justify your ideology here?
@tomkelly8827 Місяць тому
Very interesting! I am so glad that something positive can come out of our experinces with dilbit here in Canada!
@spocksdaughter9641 Місяць тому
So interested I read every comment and reply. Made lots of notes! MORE plz Wilts
@simon359 Місяць тому
Years ago when I found out that only 5% of plastics were being recycled, I was definitely appalled! Why even have these recycle bins, when everybody was lied to about recycling! So many lies about the new green deal!
@r.d.9399 Місяць тому
Research how much money cities make off of fines. That's your answer.
@chpsilva Місяць тому
It's the same reason why when are forced to pass through a metal detector in airports: to give people the false sensation that someone is doing something to address a real problem.
@musikSkool Місяць тому
The Plastic Tax might actually be more important than the Carbon Tax. Both pale in comparison to the World Pollution Tax. Basically, how much polluting does your product end up doing to the world's water, land, and air. I think the global pollution problem is way worse than global warming. The pollution will kill billions of people before climate change will kill that many.
@ItsreallymikeC Місяць тому
Well said
@highlandermachineworks5795 Місяць тому
Oof level 1000.
@1timbarrett Місяць тому
Pollution is already killing millions, with chronic diseases such as cancer and T2D.😢
@claudiaroy9455 Місяць тому
😍great video, nice job TBDV 🙌🏻
@CoruscationsOfIneptitude 6 днів тому
Excellent work! Good luck!
@sirensynapse5603 Місяць тому
Plastic drink bottles should just be outright banned. What an insane waste of energy for a single drink or a few drinks. Fill your metal or glass bottle at home, work, or local drink shop (could make these omnipresent), and stop using plastic drink bottles altogether. But sheeple will be sheeple. Idiocracy has it right, and most people would drown in their own shit before they wake up.
@1timbarrett Місяць тому
We don’t even need those drinks!😮
@katsuo3228 Місяць тому
Instead of gluing themselves to streets, protesters should invest more in these technologies and companies.
@MegaLokopo Місяць тому
And this is why we have nothing to worry about, technology gets better over time. And so long as we put things in well contained landfills, eventually companies will start going to landfills to mine for "raw materials".
@ElemennoP Місяць тому
I think most developed countries when it comes to recycling??.. a fair sized percentage of it is simply shipped overseas and dumped on 3rd world countries..🤷♂️
@stevenboelke6661 Місяць тому
I live in a 3rd world country - our per capita plastic use has to be much higher than in the developed world. No regulations on plastic use here. If you get an iced coffee on the street, you'll get 3-5 pieces of plastic. Everything is excessively packaged, and people take plastic bags for single items at markets and grocery stores.
@kde5fan737 7 днів тому
PLEASE do a video on waste (garbage/trash) to energy power plants like they use in Sweden. They burn all trash at a very high temp & filter the exhaust to remove pollutants. I think this is, BY FAR, the most economical method of handling our plastic waste as well as normal household garbage as we no longer need nasty landfills. The amount of energy & time & resources required for recycling plastics is enormous and makes recycling FAR FAR more expensive than using virgin feedstock and it is (currently) ALWAYS of lesser quality than new plastics. After everything is burnt, the ash can be used for a wide variety of things and the metals can be recovered.
@KingTut559 7 днів тому
Thank you! I fully agree and this should be the main area we look at for plastics. Very cool tech here tho
@wilsistermans1118 Місяць тому
I really hope this is a game changer. There are more techniques, but the common problem is that the end product is more expensive than the brand new plastics. The quality of the recycled plastics is often a bit less, to "comparable". While recycling is very well possible, it is not an economic valuable process.
@urbanstrencan 29 днів тому
Great episode, was working in plastic industry and we were working on future biodegradable plastics form corn, banana peels,...
@br7485 Місяць тому
Outstanding achievement. Thanks for info.
@thomassmith7542 Місяць тому
Company just posted new news , another collaboration with a multi national billion $ co. Testing Aduro’s tech. Aduro is now testing with 7 billion $ company’s for different recycling needs. If the tech plays out , well Aduro quite simply will become a multi billion dollar business
@WeighedWilson 29 днів тому
That's an awfully big if. If this company still exists in 10 years I'll buy you a beer.
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