A few years ago, on the boat to Istanbul, I met some experts whose business was selling PET plastic bottles to CocaCola in Bursa. One was Dutch, the other Austrian, our common language English, so naturally we fell into conversation. Their know-how and subsequent background research that I've been following, has solved one of my waste management concerns, and we now burn much (not all) of our plastic waste in our stove. It gets rid of the waste and contributes heat. (According to my PET experts, up to 95% of the energy is re-gained from incineration.)
The logic, of course, is simple - plastic is made from hydrocarbon - so it's oil. When you burn it, Carbon dioxide and water are the by-products from the combustion. Here is an excellent demonstration - watch the video!
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/02/14/award-winning-inventor-makes-fuel-from-plastic-bags/
We're basically talking about polyethelene, here, and all of it's relatives - polypropelene, polystyrene, etc, but there are also some other groups of plastics which I'm not so confident about burning in the stove, so they still go out to the garden incinerator.
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The logic, of course, is simple - plastic is made from hydrocarbon - so it's oil. When you burn it, Carbon dioxide and water are the by-products from the combustion. Here is an excellent demonstration - watch the video!
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/02/14/award-winning-inventor-makes-fuel-from-plastic-bags/
We're basically talking about polyethelene, here, and all of it's relatives - polypropelene, polystyrene, etc, but there are also some other groups of plastics which I'm not so confident about burning in the stove, so they still go out to the garden incinerator.
CT
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