2014 Ocean Exchange Registrant

1. PLASTIC FREE ISLAND: WASTE TO FUEL
Transforms Collected Plastics to Fuels Through
Single Shipping Container Portable Equipment

2. The pilot site is Kefalonia, Greece.
The Drifters Project highlights art, technology, design and
creative reuse of existing structures to re-envision a new
socio-economic possibility for island nations. Partnering with
Nexus Fuels, the island of Kefalonia, Greece will become a
laboratory to develop a template program called Plastic Free
Island.
We engage cooperation with the expertise of local populations
from various interdisciplinary backgrounds through our existing
relationships with businesses, fisherman, cultural and political
institutions to initiate a shift away from plastic use dependence
towards sustainable alternatives.
PLASTIC FREE ISLAND: WASTE TO FUEL

3. The Drifters Project
involves site-based
collection, documentation,
and transformation of the
contemporary marker of
globalization without
boundaries – the drifting
plastic object.
A proven multifaceted approach that socially engages localities
to reimagine a future free of plastic waste with creative
redesign of existing structures.

4. Nexus Fuels Plastic-to-Fuel technology transforms collected plastics to jet fuel, diesel,
petrol and heating oil through single shipping container-sized equipment to be sailed from
port to port collecting plastics and making fuel and jobs. Nexus Fuels, LLC (Nexus) is a
waste management and energy development company that uses proven, patented, and
commercially viable pyrolysis technology to convert difficult-to-recycle waste plastics into
very high grade synthetic crude oil.
Existing hard waste plastics will be collected and transformed
into fuel for heating public schools, diesel and petrol sold
onsite and job creation for the local economy. Kefalonia can
begin its progress toward energy independence.

5. To learn more about this and other innovative solutions
Go to OceanExchange(dot)Org
Kefalonia will be re-envisioned as an eco-tourism
destination, boosting the failing Greek economy and a model
for other Greek islands. Plastic Free Island is an exportable
template for island nations of the world.