Jakarta, March 24 -- The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Banjarnegara District Government, and Banjarnegara Waste Bank (BSB) in Central Java have developed a technology for processing plastic waste into fuel (petasol) through a fast pyrolysis (faspol) machine.

"Processing plastic waste into petasol is an innovative solution to overcome the waste problem while providing alternative energy," Head of the Sustainable Production System Research Center and Life Cycle Assessment of BRIN Nugroho Adi Sasongko noted in a statement in Jakarta, Monday.

Coordinator of the Resource Valorization Research Group in Sustainable Circular Engineering of BRIN Tri Martini Patria elaborated that processing plastic waste into fuel has interesti...