No More Garbage Dumps!! An Israeli Company Proclaims: We Can Turn Everything In A Garbage Dump Into, Recycled or Viable Plastic Products.

Waste recycling: Israeli business says it can turn garbage into plastic products

CLOSE KIBBUTZ ZEELIM, Israel - Hawks, vultures and storks circle overhead as Christopher Sveen points at the heap of refuse rotting in the desert heat. "This is the mine of the future," he beams. Sveen is chief operations officer at UBQ, an Israeli company that has patented a process to convert household trash from landfills into reusable plastic.

From article, ("We take something that is not only not useful, but that creates a lot of damage to our planet, and we're able to turn it into the things we use every day," said Albert Douer, a member of the company's board. He said the UBQ's material can be used as a substitute for conventional petrochemical plastics and wood, reducing oil consumption and deforestation.

UBQ, an Israeli company has patented a process to convert household trash from landfills into reusable plastic. After five years of development, the company is bringing its operations online, with hopes of revolutionizing waste management worldwide and making landfills obsolete. It remains to be seen, however, if the technology really works and is commercially viable.

On a recent day, Chief Executive Jack Bigio stood alongside bales of sorted trash hauled in from a local landfill.

He said recyclable items like glass, metals and minerals are extracted, and the remaining garbage — "banana peels, the chicken bones and the hamburger, the dirty plastics, the dirty cartons, the dirty papers" — is dried and milled into a powder.

The steely gray powder then enters a reaction chamber, where it is broken down and reconstituted as a plastic-like composite material. UBQ says its closely-guarded patented process produces no carbon dioxide or toxic byproducts, and uses little energy and no water.

According to the United Nations Environment Program, five percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are produced by decomposing organic material in landfills. Roughly half is methane, which is 21 times as potent for global warming as carbon dioxide, according to the World Bank.

For every ton of material produced, UBQ says it prevents between three and 30 tons of CO2 from being created by keeping waste out of landfills.)

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