It may prove to be more cost effective in some places, to run all post consumer plastic through this process, rather than spent the energy to ship it to recycling plant.

Consider this: The worlds oceans are full of plastics that wait to be picked up and fed into this kind of reuse system. This could be a new fish industry branch. Filter the top 50 meters of ocean water for plastics. Being in the new \"green\" industry would also remove one of the major challenges our oceans face with the abount of plastic that is in them today.
sources: http://www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/plasticsarticle.html http://news.discovery.com/earth/how-much-plastic-is-in-the-ocean.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

WOW....that is awesome technology........looks like the waste plastic problem is SOLVED.....z

I recommend all who are interested in this article do research on JBI (OTC:JBII)
It\'s a fully reporting public company in which you can buy shares! -Unlike every other company/academy trying to convert plastic into usable fuel. If anyone is interestef in their recent fuel sales and their signed contracts, take a looks at : http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=15341
A LOT of info can be found there, including the info on the environmental permits and emissions testing that the company passed with flying colours. Only commercially viable plastic conversion system in the world- that is clean and green!

Start mining those aforementioned landfills for plastic too. There are huge amounts of plastic in those mountains that are of both the \"recyclable\" and \"non-recyclable\" kind. Build these plants all around the country in every large metropolitan area and you\'ve got something important going. At this point I see little, if any, drawbacks to this approach. It should be encouraged as much as possible.

I recommend every region or county (whichever makes economic sense) that now recycles and landfill plastic to get one of these gizmos and fuel their vehicles with them; they could sell any surplus.

This is old news. How sad it\'s so long for this stuff to become mainstream.
I wonder if it\'s based on the 1978 patents of Andrea Rossi who\'s now working in the USA. His work, once hugely successful, was trashed by competitors and government stooges in Italy\'s corrupt North. He was arrested as polluter and generator of toxic waste - but this project is doing exactly what he was doing. Identical!
http://ingandrearossi.net/gli-inizi/
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroldragon

OK, so it\'s been done before. Does that make it any less viable? No. It makes it more viable. Be nice to get the corrupt Italian government to go back to Mr. Rossi and apologize, but it won\'t happen of course. This is not the first time something like this has happened and it won\'t be the last. If Mr. Rossi were indeed the originator of this idea at least the world can now benefit from it. And if Rossi is still around, he could too...in a number of ways. Don\'t have to say what those ways are.

Heartiest congratulations to Canadian Company JBI for turning an experimental venture into commercial production. This will indeed be a boon in removing the hazards of plastic pollution and at the same time provide the most precious \'OIL\'.

Although I had some class X students try this in one of the exhibitions in Delhi, India, I was wondering why such ideas cannot translate themselves into commercial production when every one looks for a solution to such critical problems.

Congrats once again and I hope you will widen the activity for larger benefit of the globe.

Good on them!!!
Expanding on Dany Ehrenbrink\'s idea: how about building the recycling factory into a ship and cleaning up the great Pacific garbage patch?
I would love to see if this is feasible...