New process to turn plastic into fuel promises greener future

A new report states that Polygreen Technology and Resources, a company in the Philippines has developed a process to convert plastic into fuel. The company gets most of its plastic from Manila’s mountainous Payatas landfill where the poorest residents of the city live, collect and sell trash. The trash is collected at the Polygreen plant where it is converted to clean fuel by the process of pyrolysis. Polygreen Technology and resources inventor Jayme Navarro explains the process, "By pyrolysis, we can decompose plastic into diesel, gasoline and kerosene." 

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