"could convert the organic trash into liquid diesel fuel"
Plastic isn't organic.
"Though the company will put "millions" of its own money into the project, the Army funds will be put toward testing the technology..."
And Exxon spent $600 million "testing" algae to fuel. So what. It only proves who desperate the world is to find a self-viable alter alternative energy project that doesn't pollute because there are none except JBII's.