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Turning Petroleum Based Plastic To Oil
A public-private partnership may have just discovered the solution to oil shortage and excess plastic waste. Envion has discovered a way to turn petroleum-based plastics into fuel. That’s right, Envion can turn discarded soda bottles and other plastics that would normally fill up landfills or add to the Great Pacific Garbage Parch into gasoline, kerosene, and jet and diesel fuels.
The generator should be able to turn 10,000 tons of plastic waste into 50,000 barrels of oil annually. Sound too good to be true? Its not, they have already done it and the cost will surprise you. The Envion Oil Generator can create one barrel of synthetic light medium oil for less than $10. The estimated conversion cost is a measly $17 per ton of plastic, making it cheaper to recycle than dispose of. Disposing of that much waste in a landfill would cost between $70 and $200.
This is perhaps the most exciting news that environmentalists could ever hear in regards to plastic waste; an efficient, inexpensive, and effective way of turning waste into gasoline. Our dependence on virgin oil extracted at any cost will be a thing of the past and landfills will have more room. The pilot program at the Montgomery County Solid Waste Transfer in Derwood, MD is underway and going smoothly, and there is a brighter future for all of us for it.
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16 09 2011 at 11:30 AM
This is Awesome! Recently I saw some pieces on shows like CNN and the journal with Joan Lunden on PBS that were talking about issues and solutions for industrial recycling. This kind of thing takes it to the next level. Wonder when it will start being used on a mass level.