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Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.
(www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
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Plastic pipes have great advantages over all those materials: they're cheap, light and sturdy.
If properly disposed they don't pollute much since they last many years and basically do not degrade.
I doubt making a city pipeline out of glass pipes would be viable.
Mm that’s totally fair. Just hope that the material can be better recycled/decomposed in some way :P