13 min listen
How do you turn a plastic bag into fuel?
How do you turn a plastic bag into fuel?
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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Apr 10, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
There are a lot of plastic bags out there. Every year we get through 1 trillion plastic bags worldwide. Quick math, that means we are using 1 million bags per minute. But wouldn’t it be nice if we could turn this plastic into something useful? Like fuel for your car? On this episode of the Big Questions podcast, we are looking at the world of waste and asking: how do you turn a plastic bag into fuel? To find out we visited the Centre for Innovation and Enterprise (CIE) to meet Ben Williams, CEO for Sustainable Fuels, a new spin out from The University of Oxford, to find out...
Released:
Apr 10, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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