Making Oil Out Of Plastic : DigInfo

DigInfo - http://movie.diginfo.tv lastics are commonly made from fossil fuels, a usually irreversible process, but the Blest Company have a developed a machine which recycles plastic waste back into oil. The Blester is a batch type oil machine which can recycle polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE) and polystyrene (PS).

Recycling plastics can lead to an 87% reduction of carbon dioxide.

There are two main Blester products. The Blester L and the Blester S. The latter is mainly used in schools to recycle the plastic waste accumulated at lunchtimes. It is a functional educational tool for adults and children alike as it's effective in reducing waste plus it instills in people the importance of conserving the earths resources.

The oil produced is used as an alternative fuel for alcohol lamps, boilers and power generators.

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[jessejessejesse3]

They said you for 1kg you get 800g of fuel. They didn't say you loose energy. When plastic is free, it makes it cheaper to convert than to survey, drill, ship, refine, and re-ship crude oil and keeps the plastic out of the landfills.

That's what I got out of it anyway.

[soundrone]

i like keeping the plastic out of the land fills also

[dayspeace]

this is a very nice machine. Hopefully it would be utilize to be used by all to recycle plastics. 

[ashtweth]

HEMP replaces plastic

[ZeusHelios]

I wonder if it would be a good idea if We use a recycling machine that we can all use at home so we can recycle our own rubbish. And then use the fuel for watever we need it for. Like petrol or deisel for a car.

[he45188]

I wish I could hear the audio at the end, though...

[hummmann]

from global prospective, this machine may look not so reasonable for use, but in our society, this may provide great turnpoint to astronomic bills for dust (garbage) removal services. A kind of logistic center and warehouses may cut off large piece of dustbin robbers cake.

[guboub]

has anyone made a life cycle assessment of the full life cycle of the well-to-wheel gasoline production versus this gadget to make the claim that there is a 87% reduction of CO2 emissions? 87% compared to what?

Please do not post videos with insufficient scientific information to back up the CO2 reduction claims.

It's a good thing to reduce garbage production... but what about reducing consumption, the root cause for so much garbage, and rethink products and packaging?

[GRIMJOHNTV]

@Komalaso its latex but what the hell ....

[Komalaso]

@GRIMJOHNTV I hope you know that condoms arent made of plastic.

[GRIMJOHNTV]

so lets steal condoms and make some fuel !

:D

[kingtercel]

how much processing would be required to remove toxic plastic additives from the oil? plasticizers, bpas etc? surely these things would be lingering in the fuel at the end of the process, rendering more toxic to burn than leaded petrol