From Plastic to Fuel

Renewlogy (new branding for PK Clean) is based in Salt Lake City, UT and solves the problem of plastic waste entering landfills and oceans by turning it into fuel. While "reduce, reuse, recycle" remain the best answers, sometimes it feels ineffective or futile. It’s time to not only stop using plastics but to also give plastic value in a circular economy. The Plastic Ocean Project and Renewlogy are working together to develop the solution to plastic marine pollution on islands.

​While reduction, reuse, recycling and single-use plastic bans are the best answers, these answers can sometimes be slow to enact on the large scale needed to address the plastic pollution problem. Concurrently, 8-12 million metric tons of plastic are entering our oceans annually. 500 million plastic straws continue to be produced each day and 1,500 plastic water bottles are used every second in the US. It’s time to not only stop using plastic but to create an incentive to "mine" it.

On a large scale, this depolymerization exudes no emissions, is self sufficient and returns energy on a 1 to 50 ratio!  Learn more on Renewlogy's website.
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Why island nations? 
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​Island nations face unique circumstances in managing their solid waste within their special relationships to the oceans. Giving plastic waste value to convert into viable fuel will create a cleaner environment, reduce landfill waste, and promote economic growth. 

After traveling the world and recognizing that island nations suffer the most from plastic pollution, especially in places like Haiti and Puerto Rico with poor infrastructure for waste management, POP committed to finding the funds to get the reactor technology to regions that contribute to plastic in the ocean, have plastic washing up on their beaches, do not have waste management infrastructure, and pay a premium for fuel with a huge carbon footprint shipping fuel across the ocean. 

UNCW Researchers Verify ​Plastic-to-Fuel Technology

The Plastic Ocean Project has been analyzing the fuel produced from plastics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, using Renewlogy's technology, and comparing it to commercial grade fuels such at jet, gasoline, diesel, and off road fuels. We also look for any impurities and have been pleased with our findings enough so that we want to take this technology to help solve one of the largest environmental issues of our time. The UNCW Chemistry Department purchased a tabletop depolymizer for $5,000 through PK Clean to test the conversion and product of converting recovered ocean plastics to fuel.
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This solution creates a viable resource from low value plastics, creating a circular economy that benefits both people and the planet. 

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The photo here shows one vial of recovered ocean plastics and the amount of oil it can produce. That's right, roughly 80% of landfill bound plastics convert into a resource!

Plastics Fueling Your Economy
Returning hydrocarbons back to the fuel stream and preventing them from filling limited landfills, littering landscapes, or flowing into the ocean.

A Renewlogy worker showed a sample of the company’s final product, called ReFuel, a renewable fuel source processed from shredded plastics.

Renewlogy is setting up a new facility in Chester, Nova Scotia, where head of operations, Justin Nelson, operates the Recracker, which starts the breakdown of plastic scrap into fuel, on May 24.

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