How Waste Plastic is Converted into Fuel

♻️ Revolutionizing Recycling: Converting Plastic to Oil with the HiCOP Method

Join us as we uncover the groundbreaking HiCOP method, revolutionizing the recycling landscape by transforming plastic waste into valuable crude oil. Discover how Japan leads the charge with this innovative solution towards a greener, more sustainable future.

🎬 Key Points from the Video:

📌 Witness the transformative process of converting plastic waste into crude oil with the HiCOP method.
📌 Explore how Japan's pioneering efforts in plastic recycling are setting a new standard for sustainability.
📌 Gain insights into the environmental and economic benefits of plastic-to-oil conversion.
📌 Learn about the potential impact of HiCOP on global recycling practices and waste management strategies.
📌 Be inspired by the power of innovation to address the pressing challenges of plastic pollution.

[PeregArBagol]

I really enjoy this longer format. It's kind of frustrating when the topic is interesting but the video only lasts a few minutes. Thanks for this

[ikechukwuo.ogbonna]

Quite educative... I would like to know the name of the specific catalyst that was used in the chemical processing

[charlesarmstrong]

Absolutely wonderful!! May their work prosper exponentially !!

[LoriSwaen]

how sturdy is this plastic black block turned melted into block? Is this fast enough to deter all pelleted plastic recycling? is black blocks the end result and what is this black block (cinder block minus cinders) actually useful for ? Thank you

[emilysevastou]

Wonderful, great, the best solution i think of all so far we can all suport, invest and ..be part!

[jasontryon]

Is this method by turning these plastic bottles into pellets first?

[php]

A similar program to this Japanese pilot plant is complete in Alberta and undergoing process trials. It's a true large industrial scale plant that had $180 million spent on it over it's 15 year design and construction cycle. The trials for this plant leads to a lot of heavy coking inside the pipes leading to frequent shutdowns. We are not giving up on this and more investment is needed to change out some of the system to reduce coking. If successful, they want to process 10, 000 tons of plastic bails daily from all over western Canada and north western US. Alberta was chosen because of our extensive experience in refining heavy sour crude and have all the refinery infrastructure for it. We were the first place in the world to blend plastics into bitumen and asphalt for roads and roofing and have been doing it for over 40 years.

[hepyemliha]

Plastic use should be limited. States should do this. It should not be left to individuals.

[hoyinching]

Good advice. Together we can save environment.

[michasosnowski]

Still using energy and emits carbon. Taking all energy input from production, recycling, or building new things from old plastic, wouldnt it be more wise to use alternatives like glass and aluminium in the first place??

[grbkset-]

How costly is this process compared to virgin plastics? Producers of virgin plastics profit from its usefulness to society, but don't pay for the harm. Recycled plastics should therefore be subsidized (or virgin plastics taxed) the equivalent value to the harm. Also, how much energy does this process use and can processing use renewable energy?

[alexandraapjarova]

Not sure why they can’t continue developing safe “plastic back into oil at home” machine and sell it as a necessary house hold appliance like oven or fridge, washing machine and so on. Why did they cancel this development progress. They were on a right track for everyone to put an effort to eliminate plastic from oceans. Please continue with it! Please!!!🙏🙏🙏

[SuccessMindset]

This is how we will fix plastic waste even if making oil this way isn’t profitable

[PomahXomehko]

That's nothing new a Canadian Ukrainian developed a process back in the 1990s and built a plant near New York basically using plastic waste and after heat treatment 5 barrels of Plax and 2 barrels of gas . A British company tried to market their TR7000 meaning processing 7000 tonnes per annum but the company went bust after COVID 19 . You need energy something like 4MW per tonne of plastic good idea but only works if oil is above 120 dollars a barrel. The Plax oil was priced 150 dollars a barrel in 2018 .

[klb]

The cost and energy needed to do this.

[kinngrimm]

Sounds great, do it. The other option i saw for this came from Australia where they developed a pressure based method that breaks down plastic into crude oil, but it was rather energy intensive, though Australia has large potential for renewable energy so one could argue such method could be used in places where such are readily available. Then again usually nowadays then a Data Center is build for AI and no one is the wiser.

[mysbhyv]

Isn't more accurate to title it "Converting Plastics BACK Into Oil"?

[edh]

There has also been progress on using bacteria and enzymes and fungi to break down plastics.

[Seekay-oeqz]

From what I saw the biggest issue with plastic waste is the various plastics combo to the finished product, this makes seperation difficult EG. A chips packet, almost every country has csir centres dedicated to finding ways to break plastics down, in India there's a innovative way displayed in labs so not sure if it's gone commercial but that process has zero emissions, it's a bio degradable process using chemicals & organisms to absorb the carbon in plastics & the waste generated is eco friendly that can be turned into fertilizer. If only we had listened to the boffs that warned us decades ago but we allowed idiot politicians who scammed us to keep opec countries flush with Petro dollars that has brought us all to the brink of a disaster probably last seen by the earth when the dinosaurs became extinct along with much of nature then, this time it's not aliens, asteroids but us ! We really f..KD up a good thing & for what ? Printed paper that has no cosmic value ! Takeall of the world's richest wealth & put it on another planet - it does nothing, our economic model is flawed neither capitalism nor communism has been able to deliver a viable solution, if we r to ever reach that dream of star trek things have to change rapidly now.

[j.lietka]

How safe are the derived fuels? Do they work the same as fuel derived from crude oil / petroleum?