Mumbai firm to convert plastic waste into light diesel

Technologies & Environmental Projects (STEPS) is planning to set up a plant in India that will convert plastic waste into light diesel, calorific value combustible gas and carbon pellets. The company has successfully generated diesel from algae and has won three Lockheed Martin Innovations Awards. “We are talking to the carpet industry which generates a lot of plastic waste due to discarded carpets. We are also talking to several industries like sugar, breweries and municipal sewerage waste plants and effluent treatment plants to source raw material,” STEPS Director T. Raghavendra Rao said. A pilot project using STEPS’ technology has been set up at Kandivli by the Mumbai city administration. (January 30, 2012)