Last Friday I attended a birthday party for Roberto Conti, who is the CEO of a company that takes plastics, and reverse engineers them into fuel and other products like paraffin . https://www.contigroupinternational.com/. Please take a moment and check out their website. Also, check out their Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/contigroupllc/.
Mr. Conti, originally from Nicaragua, is an international businessman CEO. He gave me his business card, and I checked out his company online. I am quite impressed.
There is no question that plastic products, ranging from water bottles to plastic bags, are a major contributing factor to the pollution problems that we have in this world. However, plastics are not going away. We use plastics in everything from automobile parts to IV bags in hospitals, and then some. The problem is, what do we do with plastic products once they have been used for their designed purpose? Yes, you can use plastic grocery bags to pick up animal waste, but then all you have is a shitty plastic bag.
Recycling as we know it, even though it is one of the blessed sacraments of the Left, is basically a feel-good operation, and a lot of it is nothing but a scam. If you do some research, you will see that most recyclables end up in a landfill. For example, 91% of plastic waste is not recycled. They just take the plastic bottles etc, that you throw in your blue recycle bin, and dump it in the landfill with the rest of your trash. Please, read this article from National Geographic. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/plastic-produced-recycling-waste-ocean-trash-debris-environment/.
Sorry hippies, Roberto Conte is a big "C" Conservative. He is doing more to help this planet, than you are doing preening and showing off your self-importance. I can hear the whining now: "He's getting rich converting plastics to fuel, so he's not really helping the planet." You are right, he IS getting rich, and you're not! Let's see, taking plastic items from the pollution in our oceans, waterways, and the unrecyclable plastic in our landfills, and converting them to fuel that can be used cheaply in the developing world is bad? Why is helping the developing world a bad thing? First world countries pollute a lot less than second and third world countries. Have you ever tried to drink the water in India? Or, how about breathing the air in China?
Fuel is one of the largest drivers of economic development. We have transitioned from using wood, to coal, to natural gas, and where that is not available, fuel oil. We even use gasoline in our cars and trucks, diesel fuel in our trucks and locomotives, and jet fuel in our airplanes. We are in the process of developing energy sources from solar to wind power, that will help contribute to our energy grid. As we move our transportation sources from petroleum based fuels to electric energy, there is going to be a huge learning curve. We also have to heavy up our national electrical grid, and make it as safe from attack as possible.
The developing world will go through the same learning curve we went through, but they will go through it much quicker. We, the First World, have stepped in it enough times, and as the other parts of the world start to develop, they will be able to have learned from our blunders. Now, let's quit the bitching, put down the coloring books, and stop petting the emotional support puppies, and get to work making things better for all.
