Environmental Science 15th Edition by Scott Spoolman,Tyler Miller

Exercise 16

A company called Changing World Technologies has built a pilot plant to test a process it has developed for converting a mixture of discarded computers, old tires, turkey bones and feathers, and other wastes into oil by mimicking and speeding up natural processes for converting biomass into oil. Explain how this recycling process, if it turns out to be technologically and economically feasible, could lead to increased waste production.