Our seas have become a plastic graveyard – but can technology turn the tide? – Telegraph.co.uk

The goal is to roll out similar plants across the world and even install small versions on board dredgers, which can trawl the water, sucking up plastic waste and turning it into fuelto power the ships.

Plastic is notoriously difficult to recycle - and only 12 per cent of household waste is reprocessed. The rest is either burntor goes to landfill. The new system aims to turn dumped plastic into a valuable commodity.

This could really be a game-changing technology, said Adrian Haworth, of Recycling Technologies.

There is a worldwide need for it. Only a small amount of plastic is recycled - most ends up in landfill or in the ocean. We need to stop this happening in the first place.

Eventually we hope to be able to mine landfill sites for plastic, and weve had a discussion with a dredging company, with the idea that they would collect the plastic in ports and turn it into fuel on board.

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Our seas have become a plastic graveyard - but can technology turn the tide? - Telegraph.co.uk