Living in the Environment 18th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 17

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 why this recycling process, if it turns out to be technologically and economically feasible, could lead to increased waste production.