A Plastic To Fuel Demonstration at Clean Oceans International HQ

Watch as Captain Homer transforms a bunch of plastic trash into unrefined diesel fuel. There is a lot to say about the potential of this technology, but perhaps the most important is that this is one way to handle plastic ocean pollution in which the plastic is not just repurposed, but actually gone from the Earth.

​Plastic To Fuel: A Key Driver of the New Plastic Economy

​Plastic Pollution is a global epidemic with a particularly dramatic impact on the marine environment. The problem required an international demographic a generation to create and we should expect that it would require a similar global scope and time scale to manage. The only force strong enough to motivate a multinational generation to do something collectively is profit.

The Business Potential of Plastic to Fuel

​Clean Oceans International is working to prove that profit can transform the plastic pollution landscape in a positive fashion on a global scale. In 2015 COI took delivery of the first portable PTF system built in America to respond to global crisis.

The Portable PTF systems can generate diesel, gasoline or other petroleum products continuously from specific plastic waste streams and processes most packaging. Conversion is done through thermal-depolymerization using safe clean electrical power.  P2F conversion is clean and quiet and suitable for small-scale installation.

​Plastic to Fuel Collaboration

​COI is collaborating with Cabrillo college and the University of California Santa Cruz to take PPTF technology from prototype to profitable while maintaining independent academic oversight on the process and the product for human and environmental safety.

Empowering communities all over the Globe

PTF is as applicable in remote communities as in metropolitan areas, providing recycling options locally, which eliminates the need for expensive and carbon intensive transport and handling operations. Fuel produced can supplement supplies already required to conduct waste handling processes. In a win-win situation waste managers have a quick return on their investment and avoid landfilling plastic and less plastic is loose to enter the environment.

COI’s 2015 TedX talk in NYC discussed how PPTF could be used at sea as well as in  smaller, more remote communities.