Personal plastic to fuel conversion system

[theboytheboy]

Yes.

Customs and excise.
Highways Agency

You don't see it done often but they sometimes turn up at farm shows or farm sales and test all diesel vehicles.

They turned up at our farm a few months back to check our vehicles

 

[Deereone]

How is it contaminated? Dirt? Pesticides? I may just be turn up. If you want I can give you a call and explain it better

Plastic sheet is used on farms to wrap forage, when it is removed some forage sticks to the plastic. The plastic is then dumped in a heap outside where it gets wet and dirtier.........

 

[Green Prometheus]

Plastic sheet is used on farms to wrap forage, when it is removed some forage sticks to the plastic. The plastic is then dumped in a heap outside where it gets wet and dirtier.........

That's is fine. This type of non-hazardous contamination will not influence the fuel in a bad way. Water in fuel can, but the system will be capable of produced fuel with low to no levels of water in it.

 

[stroller]

If you can make them for £500 I'll have one. I produce about 6 dumpy bags of plastic cans a year on my small patch, it did cost about £20 a year to get rid of them but Viridor now have a minimum charge of £95 I think.

 

[beefandsleep]

Soft fruit growers who use polytunnels have large amounts of waste plastic from the polytunnels.

 

[onesiedale]

@Green Prometheus are you hoping to offer a service to remove plastic and put it through a massive plant that turns it into fuel or supplying the machine that makes waste plastics into fuel on farm for farm use?
Either way, how much plastic are you looking at for the process? I'm a dairy farmer who fills 3-4 skips(14cu) a year with silage plastic and fertiliser bags.

 

[joe soapy]

I would be up for a kit that would take sheeting, film wrap and net wrap.
What i used the fuel produced would be entirely my business, nobody elses

 

[Green Prometheus]

If you can make them for £500 I'll have one. I produce about 6 dumpy bags of plastic cans a year on my small patch, it did cost about £20 a year to get rid of them but Viridor now have a minimum charge of £95 I think.

Does this much plastic come from a small farm? Can you share what kind of farm you are running? Oh, thanks for giving a price by the way. Gives me an idea on how valuable this would be to people

 

[Green Prometheus]

Soft fruit growers who use polytunnels have large amounts of waste plastic from the polytunnels.

Will need to somehow find a couple of them and talk with them either on a phone or in person. Data protection doesnt allow other organisations to share their tel numbers sadly. So need to use online directory probably

 

[Green Prometheus]

@Green Prometheus are you hoping to offer a service to remove plastic and put it through a massive plant that turns it into fuel or supplying the machine that makes waste plastics into fuel on farm for farm use?
Either way, how much plastic are you looking at for the process? I'm a dairy farmer who fills 3-4 skips(14cu) a year with silage plastic and fertiliser bags.

We will supply the machine. That's the thing. We dont know what's the average plastic waste in farms. Currently we have our first size limit set to the transportation size of easily available courier vans. So maybe a main reactor with like 20-50 liter of space. Ideally, people would be able to simply top of the main reactor day by day until it is full enough, then click a button and get it recycled in several hours.

 

[Green Prometheus]

I would be up for a kit that would take sheeting, film wrap and net wrap.
What i used the fuel produced would be entirely my business, nobody elses

That is the goal. To allow people to recycle themselves and do it in such a way that it is enough beneficial to switch from current methods.

Can you give us an idea on how much plastic you produce? What type of farm you have? How much you pay for plastic waste removal?

 

[2YardOfLard]

I live on an island with about 100 households, quite a large proportion of which are also a farm or croft.
We have constant battles to get the council to collect recycling and obtaining diesel is also difficult/expensive.
Already looking at getting a community owned glass imploder. Something to recycle our plastic would be very welcome. It would need to be easy to operate by volunteers.
Do you have a web site or face book page?

 

[Green Prometheus]

I live on an island with about 100 households, quite a large proportion of which are also a farm or croft.
We have constant battles to get the council to collect recycling and obtaining diesel is also difficult/expensive.
Already looking at getting a community owned glass imploder. Something to recycle our plastic would be very welcome. It would need to be easy to operate by volunteers.
Do you have a web site or face book page?

Oh, this would probably be perfect for such small isolated communities. Sadly I am still at very early stage (figuring out the first niche market to start in). We do not have a website or Fb page yet. But when we do, we will post here and also create a new forum post. Ready to sell product will take at least a year from before it starts shipping.

Could you perhaps give me more details on how expensive is it for you to remove the plastic waste? Or other problems related to it?

 

[2YardOfLard]

Could you perhaps give me more details on how expensive is it for you to remove the plastic waste? Or other problems related to it?

Sorry, you'd have to ask the local councils. They are meant to be doing it. The problem is they don't turn up so it gathers & gathers & blows around in the wind!

 

[onesiedale]

We will supply the machine. That's the thing. We dont know what's the average plastic waste in farms. Currently we have our first size limit set to the transportation size of easily available courier vans. So maybe a main reactor with like 20-50 liter of space. Ideally, people would be able to simply top of the main reactor day by day until it is full enough, then click a button and get it recycled in several hours.

Rather than courier van size, would pallet size or delivery lorry size be feaseable for farms as, in general, we have facilities for lifting equipment of up to 1.5 tonnes.

 

[joe soapy]

That is the goal. To allow people to recycle themselves and do it in such a way that it is enough beneficial to switch from current methods.

Can you give us an idea on how much plastic you produce? What type of farm you have? How much you pay for plastic waste removal?

About 5 ton for us

 

[2manycows]

We fill a 1100 litre wheelie bin every fortnight and costs about £400 a year

 

[Welsh hill boy]

Around here it costs around £90-£100 a tonne to send used bale wrap, net and fertilizer bags for recycling, we're in an uplands livestock area with average farms 200 - 300 acres producing around the 2 - 3 tonnes of plastic waste every year as a rough idea.

 

[Green Prometheus]

Hello everyone! We have recently been accepted to participate in the Scottish Power Iberdrola Energy Challenge. Our team is about to graduate and start focusing on making this real.

Would anyone happen to know best ways to get to speak with farmers that may benefit from this? I know there are country/farm fairs happening during May, so we will be doing UK wide traveling/meeting/talking to people before our first deadline/pitch for Iberdrola on the 22nd.

Besides that, any other good ways?

P.S we have registered our company as Micro Recycling LTD, reserved domain at microrecycling.co.uk, facebook /microrecycling and twitter @microrecycling

 

[spin cycle]

i'd say you've 'got our attention'.....some pics....plus open days on farms using one would soon get the ball rolling......best of luck to you