29 November 2010
Car fuel made from trash?! What a load of rubbish! [*insert English accent)] we hear you say. Not so.
Oh-so-clever UK-based recycling company SITA has put its eco thinking hat on and is set to build 10 recycling plants around the UK in the upcoming years. Their job? To turn that goopey, Pantene shampoo bottle sitting in your recycling bin into pure gold in the form of fuel for your car.
Each new recycling plant is designed to convert around 6000 tonnes of mixed waste plastic each year that would otherwise pollute the earth, hurt animals, and age as slowly as Demi Moore in landfill.
You see, the average plastic bottle takes around 100 years to start breaking down and that’s if you’re lucky. But the equipment at SITA fast-tracks this process and can melt the plastic down and turn it into something we can really use alternative fuel.
Traditionally, mixed waste plastic has been sent to landfill, as no economically viable alternative way of treating it has been developed, says SITA chief executive David Palmer-Jones.
This can now be given a second life as a sustainable alternative to diesel.
Talk about plastic fantastic!