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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 850221" data-attributes="member: 177">Quite true.  If it works for a broad range of plastics at once.  If it requires a large degree of fine tuning, you may need multiple facilities, which would be a large capital outlay.Not quite.  The furnace helps to power itself.  It even mostly powers itself, but you don't get out more than you put into it.  The article says that it's only 85% efficient on the turkey feedstock.  You need to come up with that extra 15% somewhere.In addition, there seems to be a bit of a fib in here that might well keep you from wanting one in your home.  They say that nothing hazardous comes out of the process.  That is hogwash, especially if you're talking about using your old computers and electronics as feedstock.  Those things are loaded with lead, and other heavy metals.  Heavy metals are hazardous waste, pretty much however you slice them.Not that this is an unmanageable or unreasonable risk.  But between that and the likely need to grind stuff up to fit it through, you probably dont want it in your basement.However, a municiple one of these would be a wonderful replacement for landfills...</blockquote>