The Japanese invent a machine converts plastic back into oil

August 29th, 2012 by everydayminimalist

Very. VERY cool.

I am trying not to use as much plastic as possible, but sometimes it’s unavoidable.

That being said, check out this cool machine invented by the Japanese!

“…have managed to come up with a machine that is capable of turning plastic back into oil that can be used to create gasoline, diesel, or kerosene.

The interesting thing is that the process is capable of turning 1kg of plastic back into 1l of oil, which isn’t a bad return, not to mention that it doesn’t even create any CO2 during the process.”

Via Ubergizmo

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  • berick

    The big question is: how much energy does the conversion eat up? If it is more than the energy of the resulting oil, then the process might be useful as a way to diminish plastic waste, but it won’t help with sustainability or climate change.

    • http://thehumbleminimalist.blogspot.com/ marie

      I completely agree!

  • Pwassonne

    Why doesn’t everyone use it already ? Oo