Waste plastics influenceon environment & its solution to create on alternate energy source

摘要

Plastics are mainly created from refined crude oil. Crude oil is a natural non-renewable resource that cannot be replaced. So, when crude oii is used to manufacture plastics, vast amount of natural resource is lost. Plastics ore used in almost every aspect of our lives. Some methods have been developed including thermal degradation, where the waste plastics are melted at a certain temperature to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuel. This hydrocarbon fuel's carbon chain ranges from C3 to C27. This indicates the fuel can be fractionalized further to produce various types of fuels. Instrumental tests have shown that the produced fuel has a considerate amount of energy value.