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New elections might shake it up

Well, extremely difficult is not impossible. Maybe that's the reason no one is doing this at the moment

Thank you for your advice. It sure seems like the legislation part of this project will be the hardest. Might be a better idea to sell this not to one farmer but to several all based next to each other to spread the cost. We will get professional help in the upcoming weeks to see where we will...

I was thinking about this one: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/477319/LIT_9945.pdf If the system is intended to flare off the waste heat in a specific way to fully combust the fuel does that process still needs to be done at that temp? That high...

I have cracked the permit problem, which will allow this to be used for free on farm sites and are currently working on emission equipment. Basically if emissions are low enough, continious emission monitoring will not be required. You sure about wastes produced being hazardous? From what I...

Residuals will only be in small amounts and from what I have gathered allowed to be dumped in any of the dumping sites. It's just carbon pretty much. The approval I will be seeking should be for advanced thermal treatment of plastic and there is a directive that allows this to operate without...

Yeah...that's one of the things we are trying to decide. Our plan would be to design a system that would allow the person to swap out the container for smaller/bigger, but that's in the future. For this system to be easily transportable it will probably be limited by the size of the truck/van of...

Paper bag is much worse option to plastic bag in many ways... As you said, conventional recycling requires collection of plastic across a wide area which costs fuel to travel and produces CO2 emissions in the process. If a farmer goes to the recycling facility, the company can save on fuel...

Indeed. If you could magically get this working today, how much would you be willing to pay for it? :)

First of all plastic can not be cycled indefinitely as it degrades and looses it's qualities everytime it is done. So you will end up bad quality plastic that would just collect in dumping sites. Recycling into new materials can be costly, making recycled materials unprofitable to sell, which...

Yes, if the recycled material is thermoplastic, which is most products. Oh, our Facebook and website are there only in name. We haven't had the time to actually put content on them yet.

Depends on contamination. But in the case of a perfectly clean LDPE there would be around 10% gas (which can be reused to power the system) and ~15% wax (can be used to power the system or as heating fuel or even further processed to return more light oils like diesel)

That's a huge amount of plastic! For LDPE it would be ~(75% -90%) conversion to liquid fuel. So you could roughly think as 1 ton -750 l of diesel.

We will be attending it to make connections and learn more. The moment we got prototype working - traded shows and farm shows etc.

Yes, my original idea was based on creating system for people Lagos who could use this to clean up the plastic and start their own business selling the diesel. Sadly, starting international is much harder than nation wide, so it will have to wait for now. Plus the system will have to be modified...