Turning waste plastic back into oil – yes, really!

Many thanks to McCallum for sending this astonishing video.

If you have ever rammed handfuls of waste plastic into the bin (and who hasn’t?) you might have wondered why we can’t turn plastic back into oil, since it is made from oil in the first place. Well, a man in Japan has just done exactly that. He has made a video showing how it works, using a machine not much bigger than a food processor, and he is now taking it round schools, where children are fascinated. And, since the machine is small enough to put in an aeroplane like normal luggage, he has been taking it to show people in developing countries where no attempt to deal with the tide of waste materials has yet happened.

Have a look at the video on the folowing link. The inventor speaks Japanese, but there are very clear English sub titles, and it’s perfectly easy to understand what he means – a classic instance of ‘show, not tell’.

http://www.flixxy.com/convert-plastic-to-oil.htm

Bear in mind, too, that you can run your car on oil derived from plastic waste, as it can easily be processed into petrol or diesel.