Turning plastic rubbish into oil

[Slyer]

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Why aren't we funding this?
Has it been on the news?

Does the electricity cost make this unfeasible or what?

[Edbear]

I'll do some research on it. It makes sense, as plastic is made from oil, so must be a cost-benefit ratio to consider.

I notice the world is running rapidly out of Helium, may be all gone within the next generation.

[hayd3n]

i think places in america are starting to use it but in a bigger scale

[Brian d marge]

I helped make that Video

I was one who made a lot of that trash, in the shots of the cherry blossom ( sakura Party) I was very busy producing the trash they needed for that film

On a skeptical note , if it was so damn good , why isn't it on every street corner ,,,

Stephen

[Ocean1]

On a skeptical note , if it was so damn good , why isn't it on every street corner ,,,
Stephen

It's a simple pyrolisys process. And you can't get 1 litre of fuel from 1 Kg of pure polyolefin based plastic let alone mixed waste plastic.

We're doing better that that right here, there’s a far more sophisticated process is coming to a town near you soon.

[Slyer]

Good to hear. Would love some of this recycling to appear locally, it all just gets shipped overseas now doesn't it?

[Coldrider]

Good to hear. Would love some of this recycling to appear locally, it all just gets shipped overseas now doesn't it?Yes, consuming oil in collection and transportation to get what little oil.

[Ocean1]

Good to hear. Would love some of this recycling to appear locally, it all just gets shipped overseas now doesn't it?

No. A couple of percent is processed for re-manufacturing material, the rest of it ends up in the environment, 'prox 10% "controled" (landfills).

[Ocean1]

Yes, consuming oil in collection and transportation to get what little oil.

You need to take the process to the waste, dude.

Even so it just barely breaks even, and that's because the true cost of turning oil into plastic is nowhere near included in what you pay for your latest toys.

[Brian d marge]

well can I get a wee machine for me back garden , me diesel enfield would run like a treat

Stephen

[EJK]

IF that's true, he is the next Nobel prize winner.

[Pixie]

I think you will find that a small system like that in the video will produce a lot of CO2.

It's all good - a nice warm future for all

The plastic is far more innocuous in a landfill than being burnt to drive the pyrolysis process.

Stupid hippies

[Quasievil]

Bad idea...........think of the Oil companies :yes:

[NighthawkNZ]

On a skeptical note , if it was so damn good , why isn't it on every street corner ,,,


For the obvious reason that the major oil companies don't make as much of your hard earned cash... so they will come up with reasons why it doesn't work and or try to supress the info etc... the idea of doing this has been around since the 50's

If they control the the flow and supply they control the demand, and then they control the price fixing...

Either that or it doesn't work and wouldn't make enough money... ???

[Slyer]

Even if it's not economically viable now, eventually the price of oil is going to rise to the point that it is.

[NighthawkNZ]

Even if it's not economically viable now, eventually the price of oil is going to rise to the point that it is.

which the oild companies control the price of... (even though they say they don't) :mellow:

[Slyer]

Oh the oil companies are so evil blah blah blah.
It's the same as every industry. :yes:

[Ocean1]

I think you will find that a small system like that in the video

Nope. The environmental side effects are all good, the bigest problem is sorting the crap out of the waste stream. One of the bogies is PVC, hard to distinguish from polyethelene for example but in that process it makes chlorine based nasties.

Every pyrolisys recycling system I'm aware of is a batching one. The one here is already a continuous process, it's a couple of years out but so far it's looking good.



The plastic is far more innocuous in a landfill than being burnt to drive the pyrolysis process.

It's too valuable to trash. The only reason we pay so little for petrol is the fact that the infrastructure is already on line. If it wasn't we wouldn't be using petrol, we'd be using hydrogen, it's that simple.

[Brian d marge]

I once worked in a rural recycling scheme, this idea would have been perfect

I wonder if I could find said Japanese man ,,,

The centuarus Enfield is geooorgeous , and will all the plastic I can eat , my plans to stick it to the " man" ( old hippie word back in the day ) are coming closer !!!!

Stephen

[ajturbo]

Bad idea...........think of the Oil companies :yes:


Yeah!!!
and what will we use to crash into during our racing..!!!!??

[avgas]

Yeah!!!
and what will we use to crash into during our racing..!!!!??
WRB.
May be that would stop you fellas from crashing so much.