八点最热报 | 为了应对海洋塑料垃圾的问题，墨西哥的1家初创公司通过创新技术，加热并分解塑料，再把它们“炼”成汽油、柴油、煤油等燃料，为环境问题带来全新的解决方案。这个做法听起来不可思议，但是却实实在在，正在墨西哥上演。（主播：萧慧敏）
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00:04Plastic pollution has always been a very serious global problem.
00:08According to the United Nations data, the global recycling rate of plastic is less than 10%.
00:13There are about 8 million tons of plastic waste that can fill 2,000 garbage trucks a day,
00:19flowing into the ocean, rivers or lakes.
00:22In order to deal with the problem of plastic waste,
00:25a Mexican startup company uses innovative technology to heat and decompose plastic,
00:30then turns it into gasoline, wood oil, fuel oil, etc.
00:34to bring a new solution to the environmental problem.
00:37This approach sounds incredible, but it is actually taking place in Mexico.
00:45Collect, crush, then pour the plastic into the machine for processing.
00:49It only takes a few simple steps to turn plastic waste into fuel.
00:54In order to solve the plastic waste problem in coastal cities,
00:57a Mexican startup company specially developed a machine
01:01that can process 1.5 tons of plastic waste per week and produce thousands of tons of fuel.
01:07Plastic such as unicel, caps, PET bottles, exotic materials,
01:18for example, beach unicel, which no recycler uses,
01:23we crush it and put it in the reactor, we heat it.
01:26This process, which in this plant is approximately four hours,
01:31we have as a result various fuels.
01:35This Mexican startup company claims that through their technology,
01:39they can turn plastic waste into fuel, wood oil, coal oil, etc.
01:44They hope that in the future, plastic waste is no longer a waste,
01:47but a precious resource that can produce fuel.
01:51What we are able to demonstrate is that in an autonomous way,
01:54we can transform a machinery into a product
01:59that has a high value in the world economy, such as fuels.
02:06In this case, alternative fuels that have a good efficiency,
02:13have a good performance.
02:15However, some biologists believe that although the starting point of turning plastic waste into fuel is very good,
02:21it can reduce river and ocean pollution,
02:23but this is not the best solution to completely solve plastic waste.
02:27She describes that this approach is just the beginning.
02:30There is no way to solve the problem from the root.
02:33It seems that converting plastic to fuel, which will then be burned,
02:38is also representing a problem.
02:41That is, it is not closing the cycle of what would be getting rid of plastic waste,
02:48but entering a new problem, which would be the burning of fossil fuels.