Canadian company JBI is setting the recycling industry on fire with its new Plastic2Oil plants that promise to convert non-recyclable plastics into fuel.
Last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped an estimated 9.8 million litres of oil A DAY into the Gulf of Mexico – you’d think someone would have gotten on that faster. Oh, they did? Fire on the Horizon explains what took so damn long.
A Japanese inventor has created a machine which can melt down plastics – such as bags and bottles – into a crude oil that can be used as energy in a home heating system. In one hour, 1kg of plastic (polypropylene, polyethylene and polystyrene… you pick!… mix and match!), can be melted down into a quart of the oil, which is good for a kWh worth of energy. The $US10,000 machine can be purchased now. [PhysOrg via Wired]
