Poop to Plastic
Channel: energynownews
Date: 31/10/2011

Landfills aren't the only place innovators are turning waste into green products. Sewage treatment plants could be a gold mine in the quest to replace the millions of barrels of petroleum used every year to make plastic for packaging.

Correspondent Lee Patrick Sullivan gets a whiff of how sewer sludge is being turned into sustainable plastic to reduce the nation's oil consumption.