SCHOOL OILFIELD CARAVAN

1.INTRODUCTION
 

We, Eco Party, started an interactive participatory event called “ECO PARTY” at Shinmatsudo Kindergarten in Matsudo, Chiba in 2003, as part of our social interaction and environmental learning project. The event has been held in the firefly season every year with the kindergarten facilities open for the community residents and NPO. In 2006, the activity was expanded to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations between Nepal and Japan. We have been constantly promoting the cultural interactions between the two countries based on the harmony with nature, while supporting Nepal’s local school mainly by supplying stationary products.

We consider the plastic waste problem as a global issue and take actions globally with main focus on the advancing countries. The plastic wastes don’t return to nature, get to the rivers and have harmful effects on the natural ecosystem involving birds, fishes and other lives. They eventually get flown in to the sea from the rivers, and it is said that the superficial content of such adrift wastage in the sea is equivalent of the size of Australian continent. The total amount of plastic produced worldwide in 2008 was 245,000,000 tons, 63.9% of which (156,476,000 tons) was produced in the Western and Asian major countries including Japan, China and Korea. (Based on the Japan Plastics Industry Federation data) About 54% of the plastics produced in the major countries are turned into polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene packaging containers, massive amounts of waste incinerated and wind up in landfills. Out of the same amount of plastic, we could reproduce about 67,201,000 tons of petroleum oil using the oil reproduction technology. In calories, this is equivalent of producing 780,000,000,000 kWh of electricity. In a global scale, this means we have 131,521,000 tons of plastic that can be made back into oil, and from that amount of oil, we can produce 1,525,651,525,120kWh of electricity.

2.OBJECTIVE

The objective is to let people learn that plastic wastes become resources if collected and segregated properly, we collect the plastic garbage from the rivers, houses etc. and gather them at schools with the students’ and local residents’ cooperation. Then School Oilfield Caravan visits the school and demonstrates the plastic oil deduction machine reproducing petroleum oil from the collected plastic wastes. This whole process works as an experience learning program, for people to think about Earth’s environment and understand the importance of trash separation and recycling.

The plastic wastes gathered at the schools are collected regularly as resources, returned to oil and distilled into gasoline, paraffin, light oil and heavy oil with the large-size “plastic oil reproduction machine.” The distilled gasoline is used as the fuel for the School Oilfield Caravan’s car, while other distilled oils are also effectively utilized as fuels for diesel electric generation, boilers and so on. On the other hand, we support the children who help collecting the plastic garbage by supplying them with stationary products, etc.