“I just want to say one word to you - just one word. Plastics.”
This insightful piece of advice given to Dustin Hoffman’s character in the classic 1969 movie, The Graduate, should now be given to President Obama as a way to promote economic activity, increase national security, and help restore the environment.
While many Americans might ask what possible role plastic has in any of those areas with the exception of the environment, recent scientific advances reveal how plastic could be a source of economic growth as well as a future source of energy. Unlike other partisan political analysts or pundits polluting the Internet, Opinione prefers to offer positive solutions and innovative ideas to the problems facing America and the world.
Scientific advances in converting plastic and rubber based products such as used automobile tires into a petroleum based energy source is perhaps one of the most intriguing uses of utilizing America’s abundant supply of garbage to its advantage. Who would have thought that the millions of discarded tires in vacant lots and the billions of plastic garbage bags, shampoo bottles, and other plastic products would be a future source of energy?
The progressive and innovative use of recycling petroleum based plastic back into petroleum has already been achieved from research done at the University of Hamburg in Germany and then applied for commercial application. A concrete example that any progressive candidate in America should include in their campaign rhetoric would include the German company PlastOil, which has been able to create private sector jobs for the German economy, while at the same time reducing the need for importing oil.
At a time when the American economy is struggling to recover from its worse economic downturn since the Great Depression, the American people need to be presented with innovative and progressive ideas to get the country moving again. Like the support for a high speed and light rail transportation system operating in every congressional district in America, the same kind of broad support in the Congress could be used to support a strategy of using plastic as a economic driver as well as a source of energy.
With land fills and garbage dumps in every congressional district and state in America, congressional support of harvesting plastic as a potential energy source would be great for the economy, great for the environment, as well as reducing the need for imported oil.
The technology of converting petroleum based plastic , back into a source of energy, would be a game changer in Washington politics.
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