Meet The Kenyan Man Turning Plastic Waste Into Car Fuel
11 Oct 2023 | Abstracted from One Green Planet
"Using pyrolysis...a process that heats plastic in an oxygen-deprived environment – Muritu transforms plastics back into an oil or hydrocarbon liquid. An exciting by-product, biochar, fuels the furnaces."Muritu's company currently churns out 1,000 liters of fuel every couple of days. Impressively, 80% of the plastic waste input is converted into fuel
"...a whopping 400 million tonnes of waste is produced annually, of which a mere 9% gets recycled..."
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