Saturday, October 15, 2011

Plastic to oil conversion

A Japanese man has developed a small scale plastic to oil convertor.  It heats a wide variety of plastics and converts them into oil.  The oil can be further refined into gasoline, kerosene and diesel fractions.  He would like people to view plastic waste not as garbage to fill up landfills and the oceans but as a fuel source.  Thanks to Anna E. for forwarding this clip.


This may be a way of converting large areas of floating plastic debris in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean into a resource used for oil refining.




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