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Honigwesen t1_ja937gh wrote

The whole article and it doesn't bother to mention which chemicals they are talking about?

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KreamyKappa t1_ja9ph2i wrote

They don't know which chemicals they're talking about because neither Chevron nor the EPA will say which chemicals they are.

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Necoras t1_ja9p6cq wrote

They don't know. It hasn't been disclosed yet:

>ProPublica and The Guardian did obtain one consent order that covers a dozen Chevron fuels made from plastics that were reviewed under the program. Although the EPA had blacked out sections, including the chemicals’ names, that document showed that the fuels that Chevron plans to make at its Pascagoula refinery present serious health risks,

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ameofonte t1_ja9n3xq wrote

Because they don’t expect most people to get past the headline

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Jassida t1_ja9sc72 wrote

I didn't because I figure it's assuming everyone reading it is in the US. They're not

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EmilyU1F984 t1_ja9ovus wrote

No specific ones probably. The problem is taking contaminated recycled plastic and trying to make fuel that‘s actually safe to combust.

Shit ton of work went into refining gasoline, and plastics of various kinds will introduce elements that aren‘t present in oil in the first place.

Take PVC being in the recycled plastic, now you got hydrocarbons with chlorine as the end product.

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Parafault t1_jacdp8s wrote

It says recycled plastic, so it is probably just generic plastic combustion byproducts - the same thing you’d get if you burned plastic in your house. It’s really toxic stuff!

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