SITA (Société Industrielle des Transports Automobiles), the European waste management company, has on Monday revealed plans to construct 10 plants with the purpose of processing mixed waste plastic waste into oil-based fuel.

"There's a market need, it's environmentally-friendly, there's a saving on carbon emissions and it's cost comparable with regular diesel," according to David Palmer-Jones, chief executive of SITA.

It would be ideal to see waste trucks powered by the plastics they bring for conversion into fuel, he added.

(Source: Sita to turn plastic into diesel to power vehicles [The Daily Telegraph])