This British Firm is Creating Fuel through Recycled Plastic
Most of the worlds plastic will end up in landfills and a fair amount of it will end up in the worlds oceans. But there is hopes of a change coming with this new British recycling firm!
“There is a great demand right now for recycled material..” Says Adrian Haworth of Recycling Technologies.
The firm, Recycling Technologies, is breaking down plastic then turing it into fuel oils or feed stock to make new plastic.
Currently they create a hydrocarbon ’soup’ and the distill that out at different temperatures. At higher temperatures the waxes separate first, after cooling a bit separates heavy oils. Cooling further separates the lighter oils. The gases that do not condense out are being used as fuel for the entire process.
Their process is creating a heavy fuel oil that works for marine vessels. The fuel follows the new regulations regarding marine fuel that has less suffer in it. Through this process this heavy fuel oil has almost no sulfur.
Right now the firm is recycling about seven thousand tons of plastic a year but says it can quickly ramp up.
The firm has set the ambitious goal of selling 1,300 of their recycling units around the world in the next decade. Wth that they will be able to recycle nine billion tons of plastic each year.