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200 Karnataka villages enter pact to pump fuel out of plastic
More than 200 villages in the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka are silently working together on a project, which has the potential to change the way one looks at plastic waste. The villages have decided to pool in all their plastic waste and feed it to an indigenously developed plant that will convert it into synthetic fuel, an equivalent of diesel.
In what is being touted as a first of its kind initiative in the country, the Bellare gram panchayat in Puttur Taluk will shortly set up a Plastic Reclamation Unit (PRU), which has a capacity of absorbing 500 kg of plastic and generating more than 250 litres of synthetic fuel out of it in two hours.
Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat president Asha Thimmappa Gowda said 203 ecology-conscious gram panchayats in the area, who have entered a mutual agreement, will send their plastic waste to the unit.
“It is a simple process of reverse engineering using a ‘patent-applied-for’ technology. We take the plastic material back to its original form,” said Sathish Narayanaswamy, co-director of Altanol Technology, the company involved in the manufacture and improvisation of the PRU over the past nine years.
The company applied for its patent for the technology in May, he said.
Classified as a diesel equivalent by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, the synthetic fuel has a wide variety of use, like in running pump-sets, generators, industrial boilers, and costs less than Rs 25 per litre.
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200 Karnataka villages enter pact to pump fuel out of plastic | The Indian Express
More than 200 villages in the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka are silently working together on a project, which has the potential to change the way one looks at plastic waste. The villages have decided to pool in all their plastic waste and feed it to an indigenously developed plant that will convert it into synthetic fuel, an equivalent of diesel.
In what is being touted as a first of its kind initiative in the country, the Bellare gram panchayat in Puttur Taluk will shortly set up a Plastic Reclamation Unit (PRU), which has a capacity of absorbing 500 kg of plastic and generating more than 250 litres of synthetic fuel out of it in two hours.
Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat president Asha Thimmappa Gowda said 203 ecology-conscious gram panchayats in the area, who have entered a mutual agreement, will send their plastic waste to the unit.
“It is a simple process of reverse engineering using a ‘patent-applied-for’ technology. We take the plastic material back to its original form,” said Sathish Narayanaswamy, co-director of Altanol Technology, the company involved in the manufacture and improvisation of the PRU over the past nine years.
The company applied for its patent for the technology in May, he said.
Classified as a diesel equivalent by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, the synthetic fuel has a wide variety of use, like in running pump-sets, generators, industrial boilers, and costs less than Rs 25 per litre.
Read more from here:
200 Karnataka villages enter pact to pump fuel out of plastic | The Indian Express
