Ventana, a waste to energy company, has announced its partnership with Ramky Environment, a provider of comprehensive waste management services, for setting multiple plastic-to-fuel plants in India.
The goals of the partnership shall be divided into phases. In the Phase-I, the companies shall work together to establish a 15 Tonnes per day (TPD) plant at Ramky’s integrated solid waste management site at Hyderabad, where the company has a municipal concession till 2037. Both partners shall co-invest in the project.
In Phase–II the companies shall setup multiple plants to convert the 400 plus tonnes of low-grade waste plastics received by Ramky at the Hyderabad municipal site every day. The companies also plan to setup other plastic-to-fuel plants across different locations in India to convert waste plastics to high economic value industrial fuels.
Ventana’s CEO Amit Tandon, in a statement said, “Globally almost 2/3rds of waste plastics having an economic worth exceeding $300 billion are dumped to landfills for lack of a recycling solution. At Ventana, we have developed a depolymerisation engine that accepts such low-grade plastics and converts them to high value industrial fuels similar to diesel.”
“Unlike variants of the past, our patent-pending process enables a fully-continuous (non batch) process, providing therefore a utility scale solution to address a city’s plastic waste management concerns. By joining hands with Ramky will help address the challenge of recycling waste plastics and cleaning up of Indian cities,” he said.
Goutham Reddy, MD and CEO, Ramky Environment, said, “Everyday, we receive several hundred tonnes of non-recyclable waste plastics across our waste management operations in India. We are happy to partner with Ventana to convert such low-grade plastics to high value petroleum fuels. We see this as a win-win – both for environmental sustainability and for the economic bottom-line of our waste management operations.”
In 2013, the Indian Supreme Court taking cognizance of the plastic litter menace labeled it ‘a ticking time bomb’ and issued directives to environmental bodies to figure a way to deal with the problem. By offering a next life solution (as fuel) for end of life waste plastics, Ventana’s technology will enable recycle of such ‘non recyclable’ plastics while also providing calorific recovery in the form of useful commodity fuels.