Ask HN: Is anyone pursuing longshot tech for recycling / remediating landfills?
Ask HN: Is anyone pursuing longshot tech for recycling / remediating landfills?
3 by in_vestor | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I have had a lifelong interest in cleaning up trash—-something that’s probably rooted in deep-seated aesthetics and maybe a bit of OCD. My first career was in standard finance/tech and left me with enough flexibility to try to do something I’m really passionate about. I have rigorously followed the academic literature and commercial development of recycling tech. It has been a disheartening journey. Recycling doesn’t work as well as people think. Promising solutions like plasma gasification had lots of engineering and economic challenges. A recent push in Europe for landfill mining went nowhere. What is really needed is a single stream solution where almost any material can go in the front end, and out the back end comes useful elemental products or inert products. Is anyone working on long-shot technology that would do this? If so, I would like to network. I’m not interested in something to make incremental changes around the edges. I’m interested in the type of tech that would be revolutionary.
3 by in_vestor | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I have had a lifelong interest in cleaning up trash—-something that’s probably rooted in deep-seated aesthetics and maybe a bit of OCD. My first career was in standard finance/tech and left me with enough flexibility to try to do something I’m really passionate about. I have rigorously followed the academic literature and commercial development of recycling tech. It has been a disheartening journey. Recycling doesn’t work as well as people think. Promising solutions like plasma gasification had lots of engineering and economic challenges. A recent push in Europe for landfill mining went nowhere. What is really needed is a single stream solution where almost any material can go in the front end, and out the back end comes useful elemental products or inert products. Is anyone working on long-shot technology that would do this? If so, I would like to network. I’m not interested in something to make incremental changes around the edges. I’m interested in the type of tech that would be revolutionary.
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