Turning plastic rubbish into oil

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 24th August 2010, 10:09

Originally Posted by Slyer

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)

**Slyer** · 24th August 2010, 12:07

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

**Ocean1** · 24th August 2010, 13:41

Originally Posted by Pixie

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.

Originally Posted by Pixie

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** · 24th August 2010, 13:56

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