A group of students from a high school succeeded in refining fuel from plastic waste using a machine they built themselves.

The students came from a high school in the West Pasaman regency, in Batar province. They then showed off their success at a talent forum in the Transmart Mall in Padang City on October 5.

One of the inventors named, Dance Dwi Wahyudi said: "The experiment was an attempt to find a solution to increase fuel oil in Indonesia."

"The results of this finding needed 1 year of research, assisted by his supervisor at the school who found a bright spot when he succeeded in creating a plastic waste processing machine into fuel oil."

The system is still being perfected but works by refining the plastics into new biofuel, with a suggested conversion rate of 1kg of fuel yielding 1 litre of fuel.

a group of students from one of the high schools in the West Pasaman regency, the Sumatra province of Batar succeeded in creating fuel oil from plastic waste.

This success was immediately displayed in the taking of student talent work at the Transmart Mall in Padang City on October 5, 2019.

the success of this group of students was highlighted by mall visitors.

one of the inventors named dance dwi wahyudi said "the experiment he created with his friends was an attempt to find a solution to increase fuel oil in Indonesia" Furthermore, "the results of this finding need 1 year of research, assisted by his supervisor at the school who found a bright spot when he succeeded in creating a plastic waste processing machine into fuel oil" fuel oil occurs with a plastic waste system that is fueled by the decomposition system that gives rise to a gas, and the gas is automatically entered into a cooling machine that makes the evaporation and discharge of liquid oil, the process of burning plastic waste into oil requires a maximum of 4 hours. Meanwhile, 1 kilo gram of plastic waste can make 1 liter of oil.

the students claimed they had already created the fuel they had tried by turning on the grinder. the discovery of these students is not yet perfect fuel oil.

but there is still a process of further studies to find out the level of octane oil which needs to be assisted by all parties in Indonesia to find solutions to meet the needs of fuel oil for motor vehicles and cars in Indonesia can be created as well as helping to clean the environment from plastic waste.