Dive summary:

• The project “On Wings of Waste,” will be completed in a single-engine Cessna 182 making this the first long distance flight in an aircraft of this kind.
• The Sydney- to-London flight will require 4,000 liters of fuel, which translates into five metric tons of plastic waste.
• “Our objective is to prove that this synthetic fuel made from plastic waste is viable for a number of practical solutions and by doing so replace the need to use fossil fuels from conventional sources,” Rowsell said.

From the article:

A light aircraft powered by fuel made from waste plastic will attempt to enter the record books.

Pilot Jeremy Rowsell will fly from Sydney to London in a single-engine plane, a Cessna 182; the first time such a journey has been completed by an aircraft of its type...