How is DC start up aim to pitch oil made from plastic cups?”
Plastic soda bottles, Big Gulp cups and empty sour cream containers get fed into the top of the three-story machine. About 10 minutes later, out the other side comes a light-brown synthetic oil that can be converted into fuel for a truck or a jet airplane. The Envion Oil Generator, scheduled for an official unveiling at Montgomery County’s Solid Waste Transfer Station on Wednesday, represents a local company’s decade-long effort to fight rising fuel costs and help protect the environment. As part of a pilot program, the company recently assembled the first of its fuel-producing generators at the Derwood waste facility. “We’re creating immediate answers to today’s environmental concerns,” said Michael Han, the firm’s chairman and chief executive, as he showed off the generator on Tuesday. “This is an answer to environmentalists who don’t want a landfill in their back yard.” The District company’s technology works by melting plastic in an oxygen-free environment to separate the hydrocarb
Plastic soda bottles, Big Gulp cups and empty sour cream containers get fed into the top of the three-story machine. About 10 minutes later, out the other side comes a light-brown synthetic oil that can be converted into fuel for a truck or a jet airplane. This Story * Turning Trash Into Fuel * Plastic to Oil? The Envion Oil Generator, scheduled for an official unveiling at Montgomery County’s Solid Waste Transfer Station on Wednesday, represents a local company’s decade-long effort to fight rising fuel costs and help protect the environment. As part of a pilot program, the company recently assembled the first of its fuel-producing generators at the Derwood waste facility. “We’re creating immediate answers to today’s environmental concerns,” said Michael Han, the firm’s chairman and chief executive, as he showed off the generator on Tuesday. “This is an answer to environmentalists who don’t want a landfill in their back yard.” The District company’s technology works by melting plastic
