The plastics and petrochemicals industry could, in an ironic twist, get a boost from a new technology that scientists say can turn plastic waste into the holy grail of hydrogen gas. T he Great Pacific Garbage Patch has remained solidly in the public portfolio of nightmares since it was discovered more than 30 years ago. It is, after all, a collection of marine debris twice the size of Texas. We try to closet it in the recesses of our minds, but it’s a losing battle with existentialism. It’s still there—and growing by the minute. Yet, it was only three years ago that the UD declared plastic pollution a global crisis . And this year–2020–was intended to go down in history as the year that we truly began the shift away from plastics. It hasn’t really turned out that way, though. A global pandemic got in the way, and the […]