From Junk Recycled Plastic Back to Gas - Incredible!

The video discusses the development of technology aimed at fostering a circular economy by converting waste into useful materials.
The CEO of Environment Energy, Tsuji Noda, says a core purpose of this technology is to create a circular economy in which waste becomes the source of new materials. The method was developed and patented by Professor Kaoro Fujimoto of the University of Tokyo and Professor Xiao Hong Li from the University of Kitakyushu. It uses catalysts already employed in petroleum refining to distill heavy crude oil molecules into lighter molecules, such as gasoline. At temperatures up to about four hundred and fifty degrees centigrade, the catalysts attach to the plastic's surface. They then break the material into smaller pieces, eventually converting them into hydrocarbon gases. These are then concentrated into crude oil. The HICOP process yields crude oil abundant in gasoline and diesel.