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Renewable energy company, Clean Planet Energy, has revealed the details of two sustainable marine fuels produced from non-recyclable waste plastics. Branded as Clean Planet Oceans, the fuels help provide CO
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reductions of up to 75%, cutting sulfur dioxide emissions by 1500 times the current shipping standard, while simultaneously minimizing global plastic waste.
With two production plants now in the construction phase and four more in development, the UK start-up has announced its mission to remove more than 1 million tons of non-recyclable plastic waste from the environment each year.
The Current Ocean Crisis
There is currently a steady move towards electric vehicles in a global push to curb transport emissions. However, considering a single cargo ship releases the same amount of sulfur oxide emissions as 300 million cars,
Plans in Hand to Produce Low Emission Marine Fuel from Waste Plastics
Company Says it Aims to Process 1 Million Tonnes a Year
UK – WORLDWIDE – Whilst the world and his wife concentrates on beating the coronavirus pandemic there is another curse on humanity which kills even more persistently. With over 95% of the people living on planet Earth in areas where air quality is unsatisfactory 9,000 souls are expected to succumb to pollution every single day.
Unlike many diseases this is of course self-inflicted, in 2018 long-term exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution contributed to 6.1 million premature deaths from stroke, heart attack, lung cancer, and chronic lung disease. That makes air pollution the fourth highest cause of death among all health risks, exceeded only by high blood pressure, diet, and smoking.
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