Israeli firm says it can turn garbage into plastic gold

On a recent day, Chief Executive Jack Bigio stood alongside bales of sorted trash hauled in from a local landfill.

He said recyclable items like glass, metals and minerals are extracted, and the remaining garbage — "banana peels, the chicken bones and the hamburger, the dirty plastics, the dirty cartons, the dirty papers" — is dried and milled into a powder.

The steely gray powder then enters a reaction chamber, where it is broken down and reconstituted as a plastic-like composite material. UBQ says its closely-guarded patented process produces no carbon dioxide or toxic byproducts, and uses little energy and no water.

Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press

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