earthrise - Plastic Fuel

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We have produced more plastic in the last ten years than we did in the whole of the last century. Plastic takes 100 years to degrade, which means that every single piece we have not recycled still exists. Many of the plastic items we throw away can be recycled into new products -- but some types, known as 'end-of-life' plastics, currently have no second life and end up in landfill, where they can release hazardous chemicals into the environment. How to deal with these plastics is one of the most pressing questions for businesses and local authorities. Technology company Cynar is giving these waste plastics one more life by turning them into synthetic fuel at their plant in Portlaoise, Ireland. Using a process called pyrolysis, plastics are heated in an oxygen-free environment to prevent them from burning, and then broken into their component hydrocarbons to create the equivalent of a petroleum distillate. This can then be separated into different fuels. The end products are cleaner, lower in sulphur and in the case of the diesel, higher quality than regular diesel fuel. Cynar is currently able to produce 19,000 litres of fuel from 20 tonnes of waste plastic. The company plans to set up more plants across the UK, and with 15 million tonnes of plastics still going into landfill in Europe every year, they have plenty of raw materials at their disposal. Oliver Steeds of the earthrise team visits the Cynar plant in Ireland, to find out how the process works.
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[@jec_ecart]

Looks like 10 years weren't enough to bring it practically to the masses.

[@ahmedshahzad3517]

We did this 12 years ago. It's a gold mine. Not very difficult. Has a very bad odour but worth the money. Simply the best way to reduce plastic waste rather than dumping them for decades

[@RB1987]

we have environment officers that patrol the street and fines litter,i was heavily fined €400 for plastic container

[@CanadaCob]

I remember the days when we drank coke out of a glass bottle in Canada...

[@muhammadswalih8923]

We have that here in India.

[@ayebee1207]

In Texas, we can buy Mexican bottled Coca cola in glass.

[@firstname-gq5yr]

Exactly, it's not like we have to use plastic, I know glass has its drawbacks but it's easy to reuse

[@adeolaobayan7735]

We have glass bottle coca cola in Nigeria...Africa generally

[@tinman1435]

Ah, the good old days

[@Jakedegaye]

Great to have a plant in every city of Britain.

[@alfieshienmacalinggang5358]

Each country must have this kind of powerplant to reduce plastic waste..

[@zaniah8270]

Alfie Macalinggang This startup Company called LeadJuice is bringing it globally epesically in the U.S. it needs donations and support to fulfilled the requirements of starting it in the USA.

[@alfieshienmacalinggang5358]

@@zaniah8270 the technoly really help us, since we have shortage in natural gasses. Then plastics couse chaos in our environment..

[@kazeem-mustapha]

What we were not told is the amount of energy needed to pyrolyse 1 ton of plastics to produce 800litres of fuel. From this information, we can know the cost of fuel produced per kwh of energy used.

[@michaelweston6083]

If it can be powered by renewable energy sources like wind farms, solar farms, or even nuclear then it would be well worth it, not only would we be able to almost completely diminish landfills even if it used 100 times the power it would create in gas or diesel it would be worth it for the landfills and just as an alternative fuel source.

[@tomkelly8827]

He said that the lighter, fuels are being used in the plant to keep the process going. There is no fuel input other then the plastic itself. So I guess the costs would be for the 1 ton of plastic plus transportation and processing. Considering all the plastics out there, I see this as a really good thing!

[@charrishead]

@3:50 "... non condensable gases leave the top of the distillation column, and it is those gases that we clean and use in the furnaces to heat the pyrolyse chambers ..."

[@mnshp7548]

the gas produced from the pyrolosis is used to heat the plastic in the first place, this kinda means the process is self sufficient aslong as plastic is fed into the machine, the process keeps going

[@Clean97gti]

@@mnshp7548 Assuming there is enough gas released to keep that process going. But it has to provide at least some boost, thus requiring less natural gas or electric heat from utility companies.

[@SoumyadeepBanerjee007]

*Another KZbin Recommendation in 2019* . Bring Me The Very Old One.

[@kurtilein3]

its already happening. the value of used plastic is rising. on a sailing trip in eastern europe, ive seen scavengers at every harbor. you leave your waste there, and someone will show up and seperate out all metals, paper, wood, glass, and also PET bottles.i asked one of them, he said he gets 5 cents for a empty metal can and 2-3 cents for an empty PET bottle. whats new about this is that they can use ANY kind of plastic, or any mix of plastics, not just PET.

[@joystaelens6150]

Fantastic use of end life plastics.

[@xplorism]

I think recycling plastic is the goal here not the profit in business

[@ChrisWilson999]

I believe companies could at least break even where they got plastic for free.

[@edwardcoyle5425]

Profit is the signal mechanism that states how efficient and necessary an activity is.

[@edwardcoyle5425]

@dethrophes You are speaking of the aberrations. You are right if you are saying that the cost of pollution needs to be internalized to production. My point here is, what did it cost to make that liter of diesel? Was it profitable? I hope it was very profitable.

[@edwardcoyle5425]

@dethrophes My friend, you are a socialist. You should work on that. : ] Liying, cheating, stealing hurts profits, terrible business model. Read Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. Avoid Karl Marx

[@edwardcoyle5425]

@dethrophes Yes, you are. Have you read Wealth of Nations. Are you familiar with the principles?

[@lslavychecker]

THAT IS GREAT==BEAUTIFUL START...

[@saintracheljarodm.holy-kay2560]

This is a very good concept, and currently in the United States of America only 8% of the plastic is being recycled. This needs to be center stage : on tackling plastic refuses all over the globe, God bless amen.

[@saintracheljarodm.holy-kay2560]

Tired of watching lazy human's in their glutinous consumption: for the purpose of greed; while disregarding the damage their causing too world, for there monitary wealth and power. Good clean viable option to recycle, reduce, and improve for the better of humanity, amen.

[@PerimeterControl361]

True, that will always be the case, however this process takes material that has been tagged for landfill and turns it into a marketable product. Which was the goal of the project.

[@arghyadeep5738]

i really like this process every country should follow this process and make their own processing units to make fuel from the used plastics

[@IntheEndAhNevermind]

Amazing!! Innovation that makes things better for everyone.

[@beaumontmuni]

What a good thing .. and very promising ... I am seeing a lot of this movement of converting plastics back to good quality diesel fuel. I hope this continues to grow so we can reduce this scourge across our planet. I am very encouraged tp see this happening on this scale. The man was right ... there is not shortage of plastics to be recycled as fuel. Thanks for sharing.

[@andreaschumann231]

That is a Great Discovery.

[@hekeng]

We should buy this company

[@komerwest5872]

Willing to bet we never see this come to market.

[@kevinsbott]

Fantastic to see the "cleaning effect" that the synthetically produced diesel has when mixing it with conventional diesel. Sounds like this technology is ready to go full-mainstream throughout the industrial world. Is the impetus there to do the right thing on this? I hope so.

[@sigmacentauri6191]

This is awesome.

[@darkuser9992]

I came here after watching Back to the Future again where the Doc uses waster to power his car....imagine being able to do that!

[@donvalleys7981]

Wish it never happens...If it ever that will make water a precious commodity where corporates and crooks in the govt who share bed with them will play hand in hand to own every source of water, driven by their never ending greed for corporate profits, will screw up common man in the process and end up in common public don't even have drinking water.

[@thesrinuwow]

KZbin recommended this video in 2019

[@mirzafaisalbaig]

Love these people

[@kamisview]

Why does this not have more sponsors?

[@leonidsdreams3919]

I don't get it. It's been 9 years. In this video, it looks like they have everything figured out. But I just watched a video of OMV making their own(2 years ago) and they presented it as a breakthrough. I don't get why it's not a norm in the industry.

[@dickheder4940]

big oil have all these technologies in der back pocket, however fossil fuels are generating gazzillions of $$$ so dey arent turning to these technologies...yet 🤑

[@christossakizlis]

Because they haven't figured out eventually everything...

[@peterasbjrnhansen2834]

It must bee pausibel to create a self running ship to clean the seas

[@michaelweston6083]

There isn't as much plastic in the sea as you might think, not only that but the ocean is 140 million square miles so finding the plastic would be hard and finding enough to fuel the journey would be impossible. It is a cool idea though.

[@pictonmitch]

I was just about to say this.

[@rickysmithdesigns210]

We are working on it guys... have a look at "Ocean Saviour".

[@rickysmithdesigns210]

The mountains of plastic are huge but what we need someone to perfect is a MICRO pyrolysis / gasification system to suit ORC generators, not massive factory size plants... then we can make them mobile/ portable/ marine based and scour the oceans and rivers for future generations. We also need to identify the worlds big producers of these plastics and tax the pants off them. Ocean Saviour project designers are keen to discuss any suggestions.

[@ltrodd]

I have an ambition to create and travel the world in a self sufficient boat containing a pyrolizer and a biodigester... You get biogas fuel from practically any organic matter with the biodigester (think fish guts, seaweed, etc), and you get diesel from any plastics you happen to be able to collect (pull up on some remote island in the middle of the pacific and you are likely to find plenty). Use those fuels in a generator + solar and wind for electricity to run a water-maker, and you can be practically self sufficient anywhere on the ocean providing you can catch/collect enough food. You can even have most of the modern comforts of home if you can produce enough fuel/heat from the process.

[@teja9676]

Excellent bro

[@NectarineSoup]

What now? This was 7 years ago?!

[@fakiirification]

a lot of things in industry happen without media fanfair. For example: you would not even believe how many millions of barrels of biodiesel are being shipped around the world. all you will see in the media is some weird old grandpa distilling used cooking oil in his garage to make his exhaust smell like french fries. what they don't show you is the massive industrial operation doing the same thing across the world using a variety of feed stocks. First hand experience as a petro-chem surveyor. im regularly on 150,000 barrel bulk tankers full of the stuff, one is loaded every 2 weeks here.

[@sans2019]

Excellent 👌

[@shermantay9077]

Amazing !

[@kinzieconrad105]

This is the sustainable answer to the plastics problem

[@teagueriley6354]

8 years later and no one is doing this

[@PatrickBaptist]

I refine my waste oil to use in my diesels, I really want to get into making diesel from plastic, it's everywhere and people I know would be happy to give it to me to really recycle.

[@arsethr.g3787]

Does it work like normal diésel?? Less power??

[@ecoambiental14]

friend i good morning and i wanna ask you something. can i use a steam boiler for burning the plastic? and another questions would be. which residues stay in the burner after burning the plastic.? thanks a lot dude.

[@wecanseethetruth5917]

Short answer is No. Behind all the tech talk it is simply a still add the term refraction still and you have it.

[@joanpinol3253]

great video! i would like to know how do you condense the gas that goes out in the pyrolytic furnace, thank you

[@ushagala6251]

I want to know more ... like what is profit and cost per 1 ton of plastic , is the residue produced is bio degradable or not , do the feul produced is polluting or not , and the most important how much energy was required for 1 ton of plastic...

[@dhirajthakur6891]

You people can use plastics in making road .It will save at least 10% bitumen.

[@googolnews2781]

BUT THIS IS NOT LONG SOLVE PROBLEM BUT IT WILL lead to microplastics which will mix into soil or water so it will create huge life threatening problem of every organism on this earth.therefore,WE HAVE TO BOYCOTT PLASTIC INDUSTRY COMPANY IN EVERY PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING.or u have to use some alternative method to solve this serious problem which is environmental friendly

[@dhirajthakur6891]

@@googolnews2781 well stopping plastic production is very ideal situation,but given current situation of the world related to plastic.road making could be useful.

[@ciceroaraujo5183]

This gold

[@martynjones973]

Good stuff 👍👍👍👍

[@zdrastvutye]

good idea on first sight. but on the second, there are waste incineration plants which also need to be fed. furthermore, in germany there is a different winter then in texas

[@harishbabu6108]

Good initiative guys

[@a619ko]

A long time ago, I saw a documentary on a guy who turns plastic into Oil...I wonder what became of that.

[@mickgatz214]

Quickly! gotta dig up all those landfills and get that plastic back! lol

[@ebieyair2099]

Okt 2019.

[@robjworkshop5692]

Cynar PLC went into voluntary liquidation in December 2015...

[@jawediqbal4136]

Nice!

[@gsp113]

What about the price

[@TheArslan2076]

That is truly the fuel of the future if it burns as clean as it is...! Everyone has to build such plants. Plastic recycled, genius idea...👋👍

[@tiddybearkush]

What happens when the plastic runs out?

[@kinyanjuiwambui956]

this is great how much does such a plant opertion in Cynar cost in investment to production

[@McMike]

Almost 2020... where is my Bio-Diesel ? 🙄😤

[@johnlemon5904]

Bio-Diesel? This is not at all Bio-Diesel! This is Diesel made from fossil Oil just as your regular Diesel! The Oil used for it was only made into plastic before. Bio-Diesel is made from Algea or other plants. And the Bio-Diesels made from plants are truly co2 neutral, because they take the carbon from the atmosphere and then release it back again. This plasticfuel tho takes carbon from the ground and releases it into the atmosphere.

[@AdamBechtol]

nice

[@MrBugman2525]

U can use plastic for homes and shore lines

[@cryptoden3708]

Очень нужная и полезная технология

[@Faranos007]

2k lbs of plastic creates 211 gal of diesel. 1758 lbs of the plastic is converted to fuel with 242 lbs of residual waste to be resold to market as recycled material. Diesel at $3 gal is $165 a barrel (55gal drum). raw processed plastic runs $7 lb. If anyone can find out the power source/method they use to heat/boil the plastics, a rough cost comparison to operate could be made.

[@megabiz247thompson2]

I think you are right on the static on production of plastic fuel I am from Africa ( Nigeria) I am recycling plastic to fuel for small scale entrepreneur .

[@BOYSWILLBEBOYS2010]

Can you add and run a Steam/Electric Cogen from this process? Also if you could throw a complete unit together and send it to my house that would be swell.

[@mersy338]

1:30 is that 007 undercover as CEO at a plastic recycling factory? 🤯

[@reddynv2282]

Sir can you say how much it cost for get 1 little oil

[@CaliforniaCarpenter7]

About tree fiddy.

[@vintageringsGarry]

This movement is catching on around the world. We need slot of smaller distillers along / near oceans and near landfills. Let's get it cleaned up and use fuel for your home/shop heating for the garden tractor and or field tractors. Use Wmo or Wvo to heat the plastic. When diesel starts flowing switch supply it can feed the furnace. Wmo and Wvo is free for the asking. You will pay for cleaner filtered waste oils. Let's make some diesel.

[@saurabhdev9197]

What type of catalyst use in plastic recycling?

[@user-lb7xv4ch9p]

Nice video. Now it is real. We use the fast pyrolysis plant Fpp02 for recycling plastic waste . Reactor 500 kg/h. It turns out liquid fuel for hot water boilers

[@rajibbiswas910]

Undoubtedly, it is a initiative idea, by using this initiative idea,all country will be able to terminate / reduce pollution, especially environment pollution, water pollution etc & also able to build up a standard life living place. But i am so much interested to know more clear, if i want to start this what should i do.. Especially tell the procurement of plastic to convert oil..

[@bodryn]

With all those landfills worldwide, this looks very promising. Scientific progress may save us yet.

[@WayneStcroix]

Type of plastic do they use to make the deiesl fuel

[@ebenburger111]

Solar and wind energy can be used to kick-start it off...

[@akshaygera9097]

Just realised this video is 7years old. Where did this technology go?

[@autobahnrichness9355]

In the bin 😆

[@MiteshDamania]

we need to put more money into end life of products. as this video demonstrated, the end of plastic's life doesn't have to a landfill or burnt into air.

[@alexh349]

Ful is poisenus

[@Coolni4616]

Bien

[@kwxj61b]

Reporter fail to ask is...what's the cost to turn plastic into fuel?

[@techlife9665]

Still hard to believe

[@Curtis.mullins]

I have a hard time believing that more energy is created than used in this process. Maybe I am wrong but the gathering and shipping of all that plastic, not to mention the industrial processing it goes through, has to consume massive amounts of energy.

[@charliemacklin5194]

Curtis Mullins sure it takes energy to gather and process the plastic, but think how much energy and effort it takes to build an offshore oil rig and extract petroleum from thousands of feet below the sea floor...

[@proletariat9467]

He did mention some of the vapors that dont condense into diesel are siphoned off for fuel gas, but is it enough to keep up or is more energy required. I'm pretty sure people putting these small refineries together dont want to give away all the information.

[@skamanization]

Better than using energy to transport to landfills, self sufficient system

[@martinehammond4126]

I take it at some point in the near future, landfill sites could be re-opened up to extract plastics from them and anything else that we can reuse.

[@MsSomeonenew]

Yes, once resources cost more dumps will be gold mines.

[@chasl3645]

So is this profitable or does it need to be subsidized.

[@shermantay9077]

Pls come to South East Asia to set up a plant

[@bnatbox]

Is this happening now?

[@sonhoang-ij9oe]

Tuyệt vời

[@bodryn]

Likewise here in the US. Little 6 1/2 oz. bottles, for a nickel. :-/

[@tellabalu]

Does this process work for any kind of plastic or does it have to be a certain grade of plastic?

[@kangle2938]

I think it only works for hydrocarbon only plastic like styrofoam not Teflon plastic or PVC because teflon and pvc will give off chlorine and flourine which will contaminate the pyrolysis oil.

[@samlabo1688]

Key West Florida has burned trash in power plant for a long time

[@markussimmons2386]

And what does that have to do with this video? They clearly state that they are not burning anything in the video..

[@misterofdead1]

Nice, this has been around for 10+ years. Nice to see there gonna something with it, imagine people having a solar panel park, that gives power to a big boiler. It heats with green energy, and we can litterly make the fuel with green energy. And deduct plastic waste

[@effreyjeppstein4673]

That's the least scientific test they could have mustered.

[@ericpham6192]

We should make consumer sort out and dispose their trash properly so ease the recycling process

[@questioneverything3026]

It does seem odd the 1 question most people would ask is, Is it a net loss system ? my guess, YES, he was told not to ask that question, It would be far cheaper to drill for new crude, than recycle crude which has already been refined into plastic, trucked all around the country, sorted by hand, and turned into a "Bovril" type of diesel, I don't have a problem with this system, but the companies that create the plastic should be forced to clean up their own mess with 0 cost to the consumer, When biodegradable options are available instead of government subsidized oil based products.

[@chem2241]

we offer advanced technology with high efficiency one ton of used tires can convert to 40% un-leaded petroleum gasoline and diesel

[@muhammadgidadoaminu2312]

I want to start recycling plant in my home country so I need more information please.

[@MDMamun-tr8lz]

Could you send me your mail address please

[@tiddybearkush]

You can't use tires in that process.

[@ianspaintpot]

it is still prducing toxic vapour. as soon as it reaches melting point toxic vapour is released. that is being pumped into the air

[@junaidkhawaja9453]

What is the cost to establish this kind of plant.

[@yulianagvozdeva2527]

There is a new solution now to significantly reduce investments in such plants. You can start off with less that 0.5 mln USD and enter a model paying per a litre of fuel produced. If you are interested to learn details, please get in touch!

[@1969Punjabi]

Hi, i am interested in setting up a plastic to oil plant in the UK. Has anyone tried this? What are the regulations with regards to selling the diesel? Do you need extensive permissions or licenses which make the project nonviable? Would love to hear from anyone who has a similar interest.

[@javasrevenge7121]

Enough to find on youtube.

[@adityaparmar9025]

To where the oil can be used..?

[@stevenrussell2282]

Carbon in the ground is better than carbon in the air

[@ntlestofile3353]

What is the name of thing he tested the carbon with

[@dwainetyncompany]

No Asbestos was disturbed in the making of this video*

[@bispakzvornik3280]

Where to buy machines?

[@1powerequalsgod]

I wonder if plastic scavengers will see the green light means money collecting this for these synthetic fuel companies?

[@andrewau1993]

Be quick. Take the plastics from oceans to turn into oil.

[@vshar001]

All this is ok but what do you do with the residue? When we process 1000 kgs of plastic, we get 800 liters of desiel or fuel what ever it might be. How compatible is it with the vehicles? Is there any way to further do the destructive distillation of that residue fuel and extract any other chemicals like cooking gas or any other fuel like kerosene? How much does all thus setup cost? Can we establish in small scale or only billionaires and millionaires can afford this setup? Kindly explain

[@SuperAbhi234]

large scale plants like these in countries that don't have crude oil can be a nightmare for OPEC.

[@nitishkannan2919]

Do it in Iceland using that free geothermal power

[@lizr4471]

did you ever get to make your own diesel? if so where is the video?

[@earthstewardude]

Currency made from plastic?

[@jaysonRaymond1]

1. Why do you need the scrubber for syn gas... What kind of impurities in the syngas? 2. What are the combustible materials that you used for furnace and pyrolysis chamber? Air? Syn gas? 3. Is it possible to use only one distillation tower to produce diesel?

[@jaysonRaymond1]

4. Contactor. How do you design it?

[@chp656]

+Chun Yuan Chot Syngas is H2 ,CO.It is made from water steam and carbon.Destillation column is used for high Quality rafination of what come in,from heavy to the bottom to lighter products to the top.It is used in oil industry and pur alcohool produceing

[@calloscar1948]

well is not complicated, easy to do, just remember you gasified everything you got not impurities, i have done it, and it works perfectly fine, i havent used complex machinery...