Plastic pollution is a global problem. But in particular traveling to developing countries like Nepal or Indonesia, you often see enormous amounts of trash just covering the landscape. Some of it is coming from Western countries, who carelessly exported it to where no actual recycling facilities exist. This plastic is often burned for cooking or for disposal on the roadside, which is an extreme health hazard. In other cases it is just left to very slowly break down into microplastics.

With this project, we want to develop a small-scale device that allows local communities to recycle plastic. Instead of spending money for imported fuel, people can generate their own fuel and support the local economy — while protecting the environment and wildlife at the same time!

The first step for us is to develop a small household device, that allows anyone to recycle their own plastic waste and produce diesel or petrol fuels. These can be safely used for cooking, automobiles, electricity generation, etc. The goal is to design a standalone system that functions without an external energy source, partially using the produced fuel for heating. This could provide a way to deal with the accumulating plastic waste in particular for people in remote areas without access to electricity or on islands, where it is hard to dispose of the waste.

You find updates on this in our blog. Click/tap any of the pictures above to learn more about the technology and our vision.

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