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by sitkack 472 days ago
Wait, can we just recycle plastic into margarine? Bubble wrap marmalade?
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Naturally occuring polymers like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid are indeed very similar to synthetic ones, in that they both contain long hydrocarbon chains of varying length.
So we can take a barrel of crude oil and turn it into nacho cheese? What would that entail.