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I Melt With You: Plastic Becomes Fuel

Posted on
March 28, 2012
by GCT

http://www.greencitytimes.com/blog/

The relevant parts below:

Going green in the auto industry goes far beyond developing hybrid cars. Volvo is one company that makes everything from construction equipment to foreign sedans and has found itself on the frontlines of the green automotive movement, developing a wide range of green services to revolutionize the auto industry and lower dependency on expensive, pollution-causing fuels. On the other side of the world, a promising new initiative from a startup company in Niagara Falls involves turning a resource the United States has in bulk into fuel. This abundant resource is plastic. With gasoline prices at an all time high, the timing could not be better.

Although the automotive industry is definitely moving in the direction of cars with reduced dependency on fuel, the United States is a long way from not needing large amounts of fuel regularly. A large part of the answer may be plastic. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that only 7 percent of the United States’ plastic waste is recycled. John Bordynuik of the Niagara Falls-based company JBI Inc. says he has found a way to contribute to recycling efforts and lower demand for foreign oil by turning plastic into fuel. Although not a new concept, Bordynuik’s method may be the first to make a product of equal quality to standardized fuel.

Bordynuik uses a machine he calls the Plastic-Eating Monster. It melts all types of plastic from water bottles to plastic shopping bags and converts the material into oil. The process rearranges the plastic’s hydrocarbon chains until it becomes a No. 6 fuel, a type of oil favored by U.S. steel companies. Bordynuik’s process is highly efficient, with 90 percent of plastic being recycled into oil. Although the oil is still a fossil fuel that causes pollution, his process takes plastics that are sitting in landfills and reuses them. He is also able to make use of plastics that are dirty and low-quality, many of which a recycler would not take. His company produces a few thousand gallons of oil each day.

Bordynuik’s plastic-to-fuel conversion process is certainly a step in the right direction.

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