Technology for public outreach of fuel oil production from municipal plastic wastes

Abstract

Improving public understanding and awareness is often considered as one of key factor on the waste-to-energy implementation. In order to improve awareness on plastic separation from household waste, an education and public outreach activity has been initiated by involving the development of pyrolysis technology for producing liquid oil. The technology is an integrated system of pyrolysis machine and shredding machine. The system need to cope with challenge of flexibility and easy transportation from one community-based waste recycle (waste bank) to another for campaign or education purpose. The technology is expected to exhibit the benefit of plastic waste to be converted as an alternative source of burnable oil for household.