Thermal Depolymerization Process
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Thermal Depolymerization Process, TDP, is a new process that is made to handle almost any type of waste. It is supposed to turn things like turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, computers, medical waste, and even biological weapons in valuable products. The waste is supposed to go in and come out as high quality oil, clean burning gas, and purified minerals. This can to a solution to three very big problems, waste, oil supply, and global warming. It is a process that the creators say works so well that it could make some toxic wastes problems history as well as depending on imported oil from the Middle East.
Making oil and gas from hydrocarbon based waste is something that the Earth has been doing for a long time since most crude oil come from plants and animals that have died, settled at the bottom of the ocean, decomposed and