Can a particle accelerator decompose plastic bags?

[Aaronquah]

[kentauros]

1. Only parts of them.

Random parts.

[Chan790]

3. If you waited long enough, wouldn't the whole thing decompose?

I mean it's a horribly-inefficient method to use to break down plastics faster...what at 1TeV/minute or so, you'd only have to burn a few-thousand gallons of oil to produce enough electricity to get rid of a ton of plastic bags. But it could be done.

It'd be more efficient to build rockets and launch them into the space, I suspect.

[kentauros]

7. Yeah, but launching them into space

will inevitably suffocate space whales

Feed the bags to HAARP. Let it make music with them

[bluedigger]

2. Is this a theoretical question?

Or do you need to dispose of something?

[Fearless]

4. +1000

[olddots]

5. Will putting a plastic bag in a particle accelerator

speed up the process of the bag decomposing ?

easy answer =yes and no

[Libertas1776]

6. hmmmm

if so...then I could use one next to the garbage disposal under the sink.

[kentauros]

8. CAUTION:

[Major Nikon]

9. Then what would we use to pick up dog shit?

[olddots]

10. Exellent idea !

we can make tiny particle accelerators that attach to dog butts to decompose the poop and we'll sell them on TV .

No more plastic bags or dog poop but the time/space fabric has been torn and Reagan is president

[Major Nikon]

11. Seems like the simpler approach would be to train dogs to pick up their own shit

...which also avoids the less desireable return to Raygunism.

[In_The_Wind]

12. If they only could.

[hunter]

13. Why decompose when you can make plastic wood?

http://www.instructables.com/id/HomemadePlastic



Try it with wax. Outside. The author of the instructables article must not be as sensitive to fumes as I am.

Don't burn yourself. Turkey fryer dangerous, etc., etc..

Fire decomposes plastic too...



In Sweden and quite a few other nations they make heat and electricity out of garbage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration