EUROPLASTICS – PLASTIC-COAL PROJECT
March 1st, 2004
BY MATTHEW BRACEAUSTRALIAN researchers are experimenting with co-firing plastic waste with coal in the blast furnace iron-making process. If the trials are successful this technique will - said the Australian government - provide a way to dispose of large volumes of plastic waste, whilst benefiting the environment. The use of waste plastics as a supplementary fuel also reduces carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. The co-firing of blast furnaces with coal and plastics has already been pioneered in Japan but now Australian researchers are collaborating ...
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