(1 Feb 2025)
MEXICO PLASTIC TO FUEL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 4 January 2025
1. Various of sacks full of plastic waste at a small recycling facility
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 2 January 2025
2. Various of Petgas worker pouring plastic waste into machine to shred it into small pieces
3. Close of Petgas worker
4. Close of plastic shreds going into container
5. Various of Petgas worker filling sack with shredded plastic waste
6. Worker carrying sack of plastic waste
7. Various of people working outside the workshop
8. Mid of Carlos Parraguirre Díaz, Petgas operations manager securing a pipe
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Parraguirre Díaz, Petgas operations manager:
“(We collect) various plastics such as styrofoam, plastic caps, pet bottles, bottles of various materials… For example, the styrofoam (collected) from the beach which can’t be recycled… we crush it all and we put it in the (Petgas) reactor. We heat it and it travels through this invention – both the plant and the process are new inventions (It all travels) through the thermal converters and after the whole process, which in this plant takes approximately four hours, we get different fuels as a result.”
7. Various of Parraguirre Díaz pouring plastic caps into box
8. Various of Petgas worker pouring plastic caps into machine to convert them into fuel
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Parraguirre Díaz, Petgas operations manager:
“When we collect plastic waste, for every ton of plastic that we recover, we mitigate 1.5 tons of carbon during our decontamination process. Subsequently, when we use the non-catalytic reverse pyrolysis process to convert plastic into various fuels, we use our own energy and our own fuels to power our machinery. What it means is that we are already using our fuel, which is lower in sulphur than traditional fuels.”
10. Various of flames inside Petgas machine
11. Wide of Petgas machine and barrel with fuel
12. Close of phone with app monitoring heat during the process
13. Various of Petgas workers pouring fuel into a glass made from plastic waste
14. Device for measuring octane inside a glass of Petgas fuel
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Parraguirre Díaz, Petgas operations manager:
“What we are managing to demonstrate is that in an autonomous way, our machine can transform that (plastic waste) into a daily usable product that has a high value in the world economy, which is fuel. In this case, this is an alternative fuel that has good efficiency, good performance, and meets our country’s official standards in terms of sulphur and octane parameters.”
16. Various of Petgas machine
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 3 January 2025
17. Delivery driver Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez arriving to get gas from Petgas
18. Parraguirre talking to Gutiérrez
19. Close Petgas fuel in containers
20. Parraguirre pouring Petgas fuel into Gutiérrez’s motorcycle
21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez, delivery driver:
“It’s a good project, a good project, because we will be helping the planet by recycling the plastic. And it won’t be (polluting) the rivers or and sea. And it would help us a lot because (plastic waste is) everywhere. It clogs sewers, the drainage.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 4 January 2025
22. Various of biologist Alexa Mendoza (not involved in Petgas) walking Veracruz University she’s not involved in the project entering the campus
23. Mendoza looking at her tablet
24. Mendoza reading her tablet
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