Another Plastics Recycler Turning Waste to Energy

Dean Sigler Diesel Powerplants, Sustainable Aviation Leave a Comment

A recent news item on National Public Radio caught this blogger’s ear, and showed the increasing number of companies attempting to control an otherwise uncontrollable growth of plastic waste. JBI, Inc.,  a startup company says, in promoting its new process, “Our patent pending Plastic2Oil® (P2O®) process is a commercially viable, proprietary process designed to provide immediate economic benefit for industry, communities and government organizations with waste plastic recycling challenges.” JBI’s process uses consumer waste plastic bags (the so-called “T-shirt” bags in which shoppers carry groceries to their cars, Number 5 automotive plastic, food containers and even plastic gas tanks and wine bags.  These are fed onto a conveyer system in JBI’s Niagara Falls, New York plant, where they are loaded into a hopper that can accommodate 4,000 pounds per hour of waste plastic.  The material flows through an apparatus, 120 feet long, 10 feet wide and 20 feet high, which first preheats and liquefies it.  Semisolid materials are separated, and the …