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Plastic bags recycling into biodiesel?

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Assalamualaikum w.b.t What do we do with plastic bags we get from grocery shopping and etc? Interestingly, I found this one short article regarding recyling plastic bags into biodiesel. It's quite interesting to know this though its not up-to-date article. There must be extensive research going on at the moment on this waste transformation subject. Believe it or not, research over the past 100 years have been about treating/upgrading/adding value to waste, so that we'll not be living in waste in the future..(watch Wall-E movie where no more place on earth for human to live coz waste covered all earth surfaces). Have a read on this.. "A Japanese inventor has created a machine suitable for home use that can turn plastic waste into fuel, a technological feat that could give us something to do with all the grocery sacks piling up under our kitchen sinks. The plastic in bags, bottles, caps and other packaging products is made from oil. Akinori Ito's machine turns it back to