Chipped and shredded tires
Shredded plastic grape/produce shipping trays and roll of mylar
Chipped plastic bottles
Plastic bottle caps and various plastic containers
Food trays
Various plastics like bubble wrap and Styrofoam
The plastic type designation on the bottom of a #5 type bottle. Normally only plastic types #1 and #2 are recycled. Just because this is going to the curbside does not mean it is recycled!
The Polyflow pilot processor which has converted over 8 tons of polymer waste normally destined for a landfill into transportation fuel.
Polyflow CEO Jay Schabel explains the mixed stream of plastic type #1-#7 entering the Polyflow pilot processor, including shredded tires and carpet.
Polyflow inventor Charles Grispin loads a mix of plastic type #1-#7 into the Polyflow pilot processor, including rubber tire chips and carpet. The majority of the load is made up of the 93% of polymer types that are not being currently recycled and are destined for land fills.
Dick Schwarz placing the lid on the Polfylow pilot reactor. Traditional pilot runs have average polymer loads of 350lb. which creates a 69% to 83% conversion into transportation fuel depending on the inert content of the load.
Spectators view the world changing Polyflow technology first hand.
The Polyflow final product is generated from polymers that are currently viewed as trash. The material is a premium to West Texas Intermediate(WTI) benchmark crdue oil standards and has the potential to be split into three valuable streams: gasoline, diesel, and chemical aromatics.