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After the SHTF oil/fuel will be in short supply.
Almost every product you touch is made from some sort of plastic.
Carpets, clothes, tv housings, furnature etc.
Plastic is made from oil and this process can be reversed using a method called Pyrolysis.
Basically its heating the waste plastic in an oxygen free environment. (metal container)
Whats given off is a gas and oil vapor that is condensed in water and the once running the gas that the Pyrolysis produces is used to keep the system running.
They are doing the same thing with old tyres.
A simple setup could be made at home if your hands on.

I'd be interested in the home setup. I thought it needed very high temps and pressure to convert.

wasn't there a post on a comercial machine that did this?

will have a look later

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found it!

http://forum.survivaluk.net/showthread.php?tid=5166

Best is the chinese company that makes the machine.

Yes fairly high temperatures are needed but there is very low pressure involved.
You could build something with an old gas cylinder as the heating chamber.
On a small scale you would want an automatic feed that is air tight.
This cylinder is put inside an insulated burn chamber to make it efficient.
But you could make single loads if it was just for yourself and then wait for it to cool down and then do another batch.
When they do this with car tyres they do it in one large load which is manually loaded and then heated.

There is so much of this going on around the world.
But in the UK it seems there is very little development.
There was a welsh company developing this system a while back but iv not heard anything about them for a while??

So much of our plastic waste is being bailed up and shipped abroad for them to recycle and we pay to get rid of the stuff.