A know-it-all acquaintance made that statement recently and I don't know whether to believe it.
2007-05-30 07:42:35 · 4 answers · asked by Alice K 7 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
Plastic in any form DOES NOT make methane gas. Most are formed from polymers which basically are acid and oil mixed and spun.
Rotting vegetation whether in the ground or in human or animal stomachs does make methane gas in vast quantities.
That is why breaking wind stinks and is flammable.
2007-05-30 11:40:06 · answer #1 · answered by Terry G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its very possible. Also, the most common way of recycling plastic is incinerating. Small amounts of very bed gases, such as methane.
Norway bought the best incinerator in the world, which is producing limit amounts of gases, and it also gives them 90% of electricity, to the whole country!
2007-05-30 15:40:38 · answer #2 · answered by Kristina M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it doesn't see this article about plastic recycling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_recycling
2007-05-30 15:40:59 · answer #3 · answered by RcJones 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not know, but if so i think it could be converted into supplying power somehow-isn't that what manure power is using to create energy?
2007-05-30 15:10:36 · answer #4 · answered by cynder66 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋