Dive summary:

• A machine invented in Japan has been installed in a Whitehorse recycling plant in Yukon, Canada, and it can grind through 529 lbs of plastic every day, producing enough oil to heat about 70 homes.
• The machine is the first of its kind in North America, feeding plastic that has been cut into coarse granules through various tubes and chambers until it becomes a gas, which cools before a blend of gasoline, diesel, kerosene and some heavy oils is released.
• The only byproducts include a little bit of water vapor, carbon residue and carbon dioxide equivalent to about four humans breathing normally.

From the article:

Diverting plastic from landfills and turning it into oil is no longer just a pipe dream in the Yukon.

A machine invented in Japan has been installed in a Whitehorse recycling plant that can chew through 240 kilograms of plastic every day and produce enough oil to heat about 70 homes.

The technology is suited to northern Canada, where most homes are heated with oil-burning furnaces.

The contraption, which is the first of its kind in North America, looks like a mad scientist's workshop and takes over an area roughly the size of a pool table at the warehouse at P&M Recycling. ....