By Celsias Team
Posted on Aug. 23, 2010. Listed in:
A Japanese company has come up with a clever invention that provides a small reprise from the seemingly growing sea of plastic waste in the world. The company, Blest, has developed one of the smallest and safest oil-to-plastic conversion machines on the market. One kilo of plastic can be converted into approximately one litre of oil.
Founder and CEO, Akinori Ito, hopes that one day the machine will be found in all homes in Japan.
“It's a waste to throw away, isn't it? This is a treasure," he says.
For more on Blest, and provided you can read Japanese, click here.
interesting, but how much energy does it take to make a litre of oil from plastic waste, compared to the energy available from that oil?
Written in August 2010