A recycling and fabrication appliance is provided. The recycling and fabrication appliance is generally configured to convert solid waste, solid materials and/or solid objects into a usable or reusable product. The recycling and fabrication appliance generally comprises a single unit with one or more inputs and one or more outputs. The unit may be a cuboid, or may be any appropriate shape, and may specifically be configured to recycle or repurpose solid waste, solid materials or solid objects into a reusable form at or near the point of consumption or disposal, such as a household or office. The components of the recycling and fabrication appliance may be housed within the unit and may enable the recycling and fabrication appliance to receive various solid waste pieces as an input and to produce a single usable output, referred to herein as a output object.

A waste management system for plastic or other material floating on the surface and in the subsurface of a body of water. A shredding device will reduce the size of the particles of waste. Ocean water is removed by a drying device. The dried waste material is frozen to a temperature at or below minus fifty degrees Fahrenheit, using liquid nitrogen or other suitable means. The frozen waste material is then pulverized and ground into a powder. The powder may then be sprayed into a gas-filled chamber and heated. Temperature, pressure and humidity are maintained within the chamber for more than one minute. Microwave or other radiation and catalysts may be used to enhance the process of extraction. The processed material is then removed from the chamber. Carbon may be recycled or used as fuel by the ship. Water may be used by the ship or returned to the ocean.

A thermal decomposition apparatus comprises: a thermal decomposition apparatus mechanism being provided with a thermal decomposition furnace that decomposes a panel having a plastic layer; and a superheated steam generator that generates superheated steam being supplied to the thermal decomposition furnace. A furnace body of the thermal decomposition furnace is provided with an inner wall made of metal having a space for housing the panel, and with an outer wall made of metal enclosing the inner wall. A thermal insulation material layer is provided between the inner wall and the outer wall that encloses the inner wall. A heat storage material layer is provided between the inner wall and the thermal insulation material layer.

Implementations of the present disclosure solve one or more of the foregoing or other problems in the art with methods for the collection and destruction of salt-coated plastic waste. In particular, one or more implementation(s) can include an insulated chamber comprised of a base containing a heat source and an air source, a bed of a fluidizable media supported above the base, a support tray suspended in the insulated chamber above the fluidizable media, and a humidification compartment located outside of and connected to the insulated chamber to humidify the salt-coated waste before it enters the insulated chamber. Systems and methods of the present disclosure can also include a salt wash station to impart waste with a highly concentrated salt solution to prime the waste for enhanced reaction time once it enters the insulated chamber. Accordingly, a waste destruction system is disclosed.

A reactive process for converting composite plastic waste into hydrogen gas and a reactor system for effecting such process.

A system for processing solid waste including a segmented gasifier having a first segment detachably connected to a second segment, and a burner positioned downstream of the segmented gasifier and coupled to the segmented gasifier. A process for treating solid waste including introducing the solid waste into a first end of a segmented gasifier having a first segment detachably connected to a second segment. Gasifying the solid waste as it traverses from the first end of the gasifier to a second end of the segmented gasifier, and producing a gaseous output and a solid output at the second end of the segmented gasifier. Separating the gaseous output and the solid output, and introducing a portion of the gaseous output to a burner and recycling a portion of the gaseous output to the segmented gasifier as an energy source.

A device and method for cleaning polluting particles and debris out of a body of liquid using a swimming robot which catches debris with filters and chemically reduces the caught debris into a preferred byproduct before ejecting the byproduct back into the environment. In a preferred embodiment and application, a swimming robot made of biodegradable materials and equipped with non-toxic enzymes for chemically reducing plastics is placed into the ocean to swim around, propelled by wave motion, and safely remove plastics, particularly including microplastics, from the environment and convert the filtered plastics into a benign byproduct, until the device itself wears out and harmlessly breaks down without being recovered or polluting the environment further.

The present disclosure relates to apparatus and processes for inspection, sortation, and pysrolysis of waste plastic feeds. In at least one embodiment, a method includes inspecting a waste platic bale, shredding its contents to particles, and sorting those particles based on target identifiers, such as material composition. The sorted material are then pyrolyzed to achaive a desired pyrolysis product.

Described herein are methods and compositions for degrading a polymer. For example, methods can include comprising contacting a polymer with one or more polymer-degrading fungal species, wherein the polymer comprises a polyester graft, and wherein the polymer is a polymerization product of at least a monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylates, methacrylates, and combinations thereof.

Disclosed is a method for preparing aromatic hydrocarbons by hydrocracking a polymer containing aromatic rings, which includes reacting the polymer fragment with hydrogen under the action of a catalyst at a temperature of no more than 350° C.; separating a reaction product to obtain the aromatic hydrocarbons. The catalyst comprises a carrier and an active ingredient supported on the carrier, the active ingredient is at least one selected from Ru, Rh, Pt, Pd, Fe, Ni, Cu and Co, the carrier is at least one selected from metal oxide, phosphate, molecular sieve, SiO.sub.2 and sulfonated carbon, the metal oxide is at least one selected from Al.sub.2O.sub.3, Nb.sub.2O.sub.5, Nb.sub.2O.sub.5—Al.sub.2O.sub.3, Nb.sub.2O.sub.5—SiO.sub.2, TiO.sub.2, ZrO.sub.2, CeO.sub.2 and MoO.sub.3; the phosphate is at least one selected from NbOPO.sub.4 and ZrOPO.sub.4; and the molecule sieve is at least one selected from Nb-SBA-15, Nafion, H-ZSM-5, H-Beta and H-Y.