Airplane fuel of the future?

Courtesy, @Altitude Pilot Jeremy Roswell plans to fly from Sydney to London, using fuel made from plastic waste.

A British hobby pilot will be flying high on recycled plastic waste this summer.

Jeremy Rowsell, a 41-year-old insurance broker who now lives in Australia, plans to fly a single-engine Cessna aircraft 10,500 miles from Sydney to London, propelled by aviation-grade diesel fuel made from 5 tons of plastic waste.

The journey has been reported as taking between five to 10 days, during which Rowsell will take pit stops in various airports along the route where additional fuel will be stashed. The fuel itself is made by an Irish company, Cynar Plc, using waste plastic that can't otherwise be recycled, collected from the countries in which he'll stop. Rowsell is said to be the first to test the fuel in air.

Rowsell told The New York Times he aims to raise awareness of new technologies that help make flight more environmentally friendly.

"It's not about me — the story is the fuel," Roswell told the Times. "The idea is to fly the whole route on plastic fuel alone and to prove that this technology works.

"I'm a kind of carrier pigeon, carrying a message."

Source: @Altitude

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