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Article: Hope on the horizon for fuel from plastics.(environmental picture)
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- Printing News
- Article date:
- October 19, 2009
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An article in The Washington Post on Sept. 16 brought to the forefront a subject that could be of vital concern to the printing industry. The article by Mike Musgrove describes a new technology that is being demonstrated in Montgomery County, Maryland to convert plastics into oil at a very inexpensive cost. When one considers the major substrates employed by the printing industry, particularly as with the growth of the packaging segment, any effort to use our wastes as a renewable or recyclable source for fresh materials or energy should be of great significance to us.
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