Plastic Redux

A reader of this column was aghast at my December 5 post (Trash Art) about the giant swirl of plastic garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean. So she called my attention to an impossibly happy Japanese inventor, Akinori Ito, who’s come up with a fascinating way to turn plastic trash into usable oil. So it seems Japanese innovation can bring us more than freaky robots and imperishable automobiles The United Nations University has taken notice and produced a short video about the guy, his invention, and his crusade to spread the simple technology to countries most impacted by plastic trash.

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