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Episode: Fueling up with waste: Kenyan company makes petrol from plastic
Description: What if plastic waste could power your car?
In Kenya, one entrepreneur is turning plastic waste into fuel to power cars and all kinds of engines. The complex chemical structures that make plastic so tough and durable also make plastics difficult to break downβthat's why they can take hundreds of years to decompose, if at all. Progreen Innovations Limited in Kenya is one of a growing number of companies that are converting plastic into liquid fuel.
"We take it through a pyrolysis process and we end up with usable fuel, which is an alternative fuel for petrol and diesel en...