27 year old South African makes fuel from plastic

Sibusiso Shabangu was a security guard who lost his job and decided to try to make bricks from melted plastic to build a house. Instead he discovered he was creating fuel and is now selling to people for use in lawnmowers, tractors, and water pumps.

This is probably the most inspiring evidence so far that this is an idea whose time has come. It's being "discovered" around the world by people who have never heard of it before. What inspires me even more is that he had no training or knowledge about it, but has successfully started an actual business from it.

“ I then thought of the old way of making gin when ingredients would be placed on high heat and then gin would be produced. When the heat was about 400 degrees Celsius, the plastic turned to oil which later came out as diesel and I decided to increase the product.”

So many "companies" I've found online are seeking to raise 10's of millions of dollars, but then I'll find their website is 5 years old with no update and no evidence the project ever happened. Sibusiso shows you don't need millions of dollars to make this work, just a willingness to learn a little and figure it out. If he can make it work for him, why isn't there a way to show people all around the world, in places right where they are, how to do this for themselves?

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