Israel has built a plant for the production of petroleum substitute from plastic waste

State-owned company of the Ministry of Environment in Ramat Hovevei launched a production line of oil substitute from plastic waste, according to the Israeli portal Mignews.com

The cost of the plant - 10 million NIS. From one ton of plastic waste produced 600 kg of oil. In production are all kinds of plastic waste - plastic bags, packaging, toys, furniture, agricultural wastes.

In Israel, every day is going to 1500 tons of plastic waste. Most of them (75%) simply discarded in landfills, but the new plant will receive waste from about 1,000 tons. The plant in Ramat Hovevei the process of depolymerization, which is obtained by the end of oily raw material.

CEO, Dr. Gilad Golub said: "According to current practice, the plastic waste is simply disposed of in landfills, where they will remain for thousands of years the Company has developed a unique technology, which is unique in the world, we decompose the plastic, which is a kind of polymer, on.. components. One of them is oil, and we take plastic waste and convert them into oil. Thus, we get a substitute of oil, which is sent to a refinery. this reduces the need for buying oil abroad. "

If the Israeli experiment on the processing of plastic waste into oil proves successful, it could become a revolution in the field of fuel production and utilization of solid petroleum products. According to the most conservative estimates every year in landfills are millions of tons of plastic waste.

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