CSIR perfects technology for producing diesel from plastic waste at commercial scale

New Delhi, May 22: The technology developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to produce diesel from plastic waste was very close to be used for commercial production.
This technology is among a host of other ‘useful for the common man’ technologies the government was focusing on, Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Dr Harsh Vardhan said here today, at a press conference held here to brief the media on the activities of his Ministry, on three years of the Modi government.
The CSIR scientists had scaled up the technology to produce one tonne diesel per day, which was going to be very significant for energy needs at the local levels, and also for solving the problem of disposal of massive plastic was that was being generated everyday in the country.
As part of a programme for providing solution to the common man’s problems in their day-to-day life, and to make the youth employable, the Ministry had also embarked upon an ambitious project to train one lakh students of science in various skills in the next two years.
Dr Vardhan said during the last three years, the efforts of his Ministry had been to take the technology from lab to land and to align the scientific research and development to national priorities.