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Recycling Tip: How to Recycle “Non-recyclables” Including Plastic Bottle Caps, Batteries, etc.

  • Posted on August 24, 2011 at 10:36 pm

Surprise! There are certain items you are probably throwing into your recycling bin that cannot be recycled by your public recycling facilities. But don’t despare! There are options for recycling the following items (check out my video for all the info): 1) Plastic bottle caps 2) Printer ink cartridges 3) Batteries 4) Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs 5) Plastic bags (Yuck!) ;) I will show you how companies such as Aveda (www.aveda.com), Staples (www.staples.com), and Whole Foods (www.wholefoods.com), and Starbucks (www.starbucks.com) are doing their part to help YOU make the world a greener place!

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Waste Plastic to Carbon nanotubes for Lithium-ion batteries : An innovation by Dr. Pol

  • Posted on July 28, 2011 at 3:49 am

ABC7 TV NEWS, January 15, 2010 (WLS) Hosea Sanders — Plastic bags from the grocery store could soon help power your cell phone. A suburban company is developing new technology that’s giving new life for the bags that usually ended up in a landfill. Plastic bags can take hundreds of years to decompose in a landfill and they are among the most challenging items for recyclers to manage. But new technology could turn those inexpensive bags into a commodity that’s highly valuable — and green. “Those are the carbon nanotubes which are working for this battery,” said Vilas Ganpat Pol, Argonne National Laboratory. This product that could change the price of a number of your favorite gadgets. “My supervisor asked me can we do something with the plastics?” said Pol. The chemist at Argonne National Laboratory. For the last couple of years, he’s been trying to find a good use for those menacing plastic bags. “They are everywhere. They take hundreds of years to decompose,” said Pol. After much trial and error, the 35-year-old thinks he finally hit the jackpot. Pol cuts up a plastic bag, stuffs it in a reactor, adds a cobalt metal catalyst and then heats it all up to 700-degrees Celsius. After a three hour cool down, he gets carbon nanotubes. It looks like a simple black powder, but it may as well be gold. The substance can be used in lithium-ion batteries — like the ones in your cell phone. It helps make them rechargeable. Pol’s findings are significant because making these …

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Plastic Bags to Batteries: A Green Chemistry Solution

  • Posted on February 20, 2011 at 6:18 am

Plastic bags are the scourge of roadsides, parking lots and landfills. But chemistry comes to the rescue! At Argonne National Laboratory, Vilas Pol has found a way to not only recycle plastic bags–but make them into valuable batteries for cell phones and laptops.

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