People can be inevitably wasteful, and it’s evident in how much of our resources are being thrown out as garbage rather than being reused. It’s surprisingly common how blind people are to the increase of environmental pollution. They fail to realize that the plastic being used to make certain products are such an integral part of our daily lives.
As for how society is currently dealing with used plastic products, their methods of disposal include incineration, landfill, and sometimes recycling. However, these methods can cause serious environmental issues such as air pollution due to the generation of harmful gasses, land pollution, and landfill shortage. As for the solution to this issue, creating renewable energy from waste, more specifically plastic waste, would be one. This is where Eastern R&E, a South Korean plant design and supervision company, comes in.
Eastern R&E claims that their new movable contact catalyst technology can convert energy from waste products into something reusable. Some of its overall features include decomposing plastic wastes into oil, the burning of carbon to enable the disposal of large amounts of waste, reducing the cost of disposal due to the lack of by-products that remain, and the environmentally friendly treatment of waste while simultaneously producing renewable energy.
Such technology seems almost too good to be true, so how does it even work? The answer may seem complicated, but overall, it can be summed up with the process of pyrolysis. It involves feeding plastic waste into a machine and breaking it down by compressing the material to remove any moisture and grinding it up. Pyrolysis then comes into play by separating any sort of oil from the product and converting it into a usable resource.
Furthermore, the contact catalyst technology has both environmental and economic benefits which include the reduction of carbon dioxide and the reduction of waste products going to the landfill. This also reduces annual waste costs by 2.7 billion won and profits are gained from using waste products as renewable energy as well. Therefore, what we can expect from this sort of technology is the replacement of crude oil imports into a new renewable energy business which can actually create new job opportunities as well.
Overall, the current situation regarding our environment may seem bleak but as long as our society continues to be active in making sure our ecosystems are unharmed through the safe use of technology, we can all truly coexist in peace.
▲ Estrne R&E Co., Ltd.
▲ Chairman: Eui-si Lee / CEO: Won-young Suk
▲ T: +82-2-858-0020
▲ E-mail: est@estrne.com
Julie Kim
K-Herald Korea
(Los Angeles Times Advertising Supplement)
