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Crayons were the primary feedstock.

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And even with a feedstock that required no sorting, cleaning, and in all respects was considered 'optimum', and
with a reducedd the labor force needed ,they still couldn't make the machines run for a resulting profit.

And the machines still ended up breaking down.

Plastics-to-oil technology (pyrolysis) is very experimental, with various small demonstration facilities usually failing for technical and/or economic reasons, as JBI did. Pyrolysis is similar to incineration in that it's expensive and polluting, destroying materials, releasing toxins and waste products, and creating new toxic chemicals in the process.


http://www.energyjustice.net/crayola