I hate to interrupt and crush two conspiracy theories at once, but...
(1) HDPE and LDPE and PP all mixed and processed together are unsorted is the point. With recycling, you have to sort each and every type of plastic by number. For JBII, for all the plastics they recycle, there is no sorting required. So if GM drops off some HDPE plastic and the local winery drops off some LDPE plastic, they can be all thrown into one batch and UNSORTED. The point is they don't have to do separate batches for each type unlike conventional recycling which needs to sort them by type, then by color, wash them, etc. etc. When you included various fillers, there are literally THOUSANDS of different types of plastic that JBII can process without sorting whereas with recycling each of those have be to sorted or they make a very low grade near useless recycled plastic.
(2) I got this email response when writing the company:
Hello XXXXXX,
We received the air permit increase by mail a few days after it was issued. The cover letter from the NYSDEC advised us we need to amend the solid waste permit before processing 4000 lbs/hr. We filed suggested amendments with our year-end report. Plastic2Oil machines must run 24 hours per day as it is a continuous process. It cannot be run for 16 hours, stop, then fed the next day. Once the system is heated up it must be fed continuously to maintain steady state. Continuous processing provides us with off-gas at all times to keep the machine off the grid and also to make consistent fuel.
Batch-based machines or “so-called” batch-continuous processes make bad fuel and can run intermittently. I’d rather make consistent fuel all the time without heating energy costs.
Regards,
John Bordynuik
CEO
JBI
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John,
Why does the solid waste permit need to be amended to allow more than 2,000 lbs/hour when hourly throughput is not mentioned anywhere in the solid waste permit?
Thanks,
Bill
