It seems to a bit too easy TBH. First of all, if you could just distill plastics I would believe people would have discovered that many years ago. Also, plastics contain more than just oil. It does have some additives. Where does the additives go in the process?
Damn I thought about doing that while I was in the shower yesterday morning! Helps reduce the oil issue, but what about the global warming/etc?
Its nothing new, there are places in China that have been cat cracking plastic to make diesel fuel for a couple of years. I can't find the source i read it but a quick google of cracking plastic turned up loads of links. http://www.ien.com/ienblog.aspx?id=136733
Considering oil is used in the production of plastics, how is this any better than recycling the plastic?
He's a WITCH!!!!! also... "and with the children there, we collect garbage..." is he proposing we bring back slavery/child labor?
Oh come on, so fake. Even if it did work, just think of the energy you'd need for it to do so. You'd need to melt down the plastic, somehow remove the impurities, additives, general crap. Then you'd need to break down the plastic-oil into its fractions. All this done in a mini little machine that doesn't make your power bill go through the roof? (I may have tacked on the fraction part, is that supposed to be done elsewhere or is it done in the machine?)
I've done some research on this subject for my internship and my general conclusion was that although fuel can be made from thermochemical decomposition of some plastics (PP, PE, etc), the amount of energy used is more than just recycling the plastic into new plastic forms. I can see this being relevant if the revenue from fuel sales exceeds recycled plastic stock, but only if that is the key factor (which I don't think it is always). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis#Plastic_waste_disposal Take a look here for details.
