Old carrier bags, yoghurt pots and TV dinner packaging will soon be making enough fuel to power 5,000 British white vans – in Europe's first plastic-to-diesel plant
London,EN,UK -The Daily Telegraph, by Rowena Mason -8 Nov 2010: -- Sita, the waste company owned by the €7bn (£6bn) French utility Suez Environnement, will on Monday unveil plans to build up to 10 plants, creating 120 jobs and costing an estimated £50m... The first, likely to be located in the London area, will convert so-called "end of life" plastics back into oil-based fuel. This is the dregs of plastic waste contaminated by food stuffs, which ordinarily ends up at landfill because it cannot be recycled... Sita's plants will deal with 60,000 tonnes of mixed waste plastic waste per year – around 17pc of the total – leaving the potential for many more UK plants to be built in future...
Pioneering technology provided by Irish company Cynar has led to the development of the first commercially-viable plastic-to-diesel model... David Palmer-Jones, chief executive of Sita, said pilots had already been tested successfully and Sita's first full-scale plants are expected to be profitable within five years of operation... It would be ideal to see waste trucks powered by the plastics they bring for conversion into fuel, he added... It is unlikely that the fuel would find its way to the pump, but Sita aims to strike deals with local authorities and companies with commercial vehicle fleets such as hauliers and taxi firms... The waste company aims to build the plants at the rate of two to three per year, depending on how long it takes to get planning consents... (Image: SITA UK's new logo with parent Suez Environnement)
* Canada - Van Kesteren: Sees future in natural gas trucking
Chatham,ONT,CAN -The Chatham Daily News, by BOB BOUGHNER -8 Nov 2010: -- The federal government is being asked to fund a major study aimed at maintaining a trucking industry presence in southwestern Ontario... The study, said Chatham-Kent Essex MP Dave Van Kesteren, would also look at fuelling heavy-duty highway trucks with natural gas... "We have a huge surplus of cheap natural gas in Canada", he said ... The MP said he's aware of reports that Navistar is considering building heavy duty trucks at its Springfield, Ohio, facility, thereby reducing or eliminating the need for the company's Chatham facility... But Van Kesteren said he's hopeful Navistar will continue to assemble heavy duty trucks in Chatham, such as it has done for the past 100 years... (Photo: Navistar International engines -notably the popular, 7.6-liter DT 466- solely on natural gas)Labels: clean alternative fuels
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