UK start-up to turn sea plastic into fuel
A UK start-up aims to solve two problems at once by turning waterborne plastic into fuel for ships.
Plastic-to-fuel start-up Clean Planet Energy (CPE) has partnered with riverine waste NGO Riverrycle with the aim of turning waterborne plastic into a fuel for ships.
Riverrecycle already runs offices in seven countries where it runs projects to recover plastics from waterways and CPE will complement their work with a plastic-to-fuel plant in Manila.
CPE uses patented pyrolysis and oil-upgrading technology to convert waste plastics into clean fuels which can be used as a direct replacement in fossil-fuel engines.
“Both Riverrecycle and Clean Planet Energy hold advanced and complimentary technologies which together can help reduce these problems,” said Clean Planet Energy CEO Bertie Stephens.
“Riverrecycle’s technology will remove difficult plastics from the environment which would otherwise end up in our oceans, and by delivering this to our ecoPlants we can convert these plastics into ultra-clean fuels that can replace dirty fossil fuels in transport vessels (such as planes and ships) that have no other alternative means of power.”
