Plastic bags recycling into biodiesel?


Assalamualaikum w.b.t

What do we do with plastic bags we get from grocery shopping and etc?



Interestingly, I found this one short article regarding recyling plastic bags into biodiesel. It's quite interesting to know this though its not up-to-date article. There must be extensive research going on at the moment on this waste transformation subject. Believe it or not, research over the past 100 years have been about treating/upgrading/adding value to waste, so that we'll not be living in waste in the future..(watch Wall-E movie where no more place on earth for human to live coz waste covered all earth surfaces). Have a read on this..




"A Japanese inventor has created a machine suitable for home use that can turn plastic waste into fuel, a technological feat that could give us something to do with all the grocery sacks piling up under our kitchen sinks. The plastic in bags, bottles, caps and other packaging products is made from oil. Akinori Ito's machine turns it back to its original form via a carbon-negative process. It heats up the plastic, traps the vapors in a system of pipes and water chambers that cool the vapors and condense them back into crude oil, explains the website Clean Technica. The crude biofuel is suitable for use in generators and some types of stoves. It can be further refined into gasoline. The machine is sold by Ito's Blest Corporation and is praised for its efficiency: It can convert a kilogram of plastic waste into a liter of oil using a kilowatt-hour of energy. The current system costs $10,000, but Ito hopes the price will fall as demand and production rise. Ito's machine isn't the first to convert waste plastic into biofuel, but is gaining kudos for its size: It's built for home use. Other solutions are larger, such as the Envion Oil Generator, which is capable of processing 10,000 tons of plastic waste annually. Each ton of waste translates to three to five barrels of crude oil that can be further refined to commercial fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. A demonstration plant opened in Washington in 2009"

Hope we will achieve ZERO plastic bags waste in our near future, InsyaAllah

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