Plastic waste reclying

This is a truly amazing story from GoodNewsIndia. Alka Zadgaonkar is a Chemistry Professor in Nagpur, and by running experiments in the college labs, she managed to figure out a way to recycle plastic and convert it back to fuel. IOC picked up the story and promised 6 crores for a pilot project, but corruption and red tape never let things move forward. Alka and her husband Umesh were not to be deterred however, and they managed to get funding from SBI. They now have a plastic waste recyclying plant that buys off almost 5 tonnes of cheap trash off the ragpickers daily, generates power, and sells it to the local factories. The plant itself is completely power sufficient. They are likely to replicate it in other cities, and even countries like Netherlands are interested in the technology. But technology is not the only thing really. It is the awesome story of dedication and perseverence that is amazingly inspirational.

On another note, WorldChanging has an interesting piece on manufacturing plastic from plants!