Article: 310 to convert plastic to oil.(News)

Byline: Frank Esposito

Another week, another plastics-to-oil program.

This time, Canadian investment firm 310 Holdings Inc. plans to have a commercial-scale, plastics-to-oil conversion unit operating in or near Niagara Falls, Ontario, by the end of October, according to company spokeswoman Katie Matkowski.

Half of the machinery needed to build the unit already has been delivered, Matkowski said by phone Sept. 23. The unit melts down scrap plastic and using a proprietary catalyst converts the plastic into an oil similar to diesel fuel. The 310 Holdings process can extract a liter of oil for each kilogram of plastic processed.

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