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As far as I understand, this kind of rocket fuel is is more ecological than ordinary rocket fuel. I think that with the number of plastic waste all around the globe it might help to clean the environment.

However, only particular types of plastic waste can be converted into the rocket fuel. These types like polypropylene (PP), polyester (PE), polystyrene (PS) and their mixtures and analogues.

Getting back to the rocket fuel remade from plastic, the name of it is ecosene. It has been invented by one private space company from Scotland. This type of the rocket fuel has been tested and the test has shown that ecosene is 1% - 3% better than kerosene by its energy characteristics.

Yeah, I agree with you. There are many worthy projects that nobody pais attention to. Unfortunately, big space agencies are worried more about some useless projects like colonizing Mars or Venus and do not pay attention to the issues that must be solved.

Scientists from one space company figured out how to remake plastic waste into rocket fuel that has already been successfully tested. This type of rocket fuel can be used in some small launches like delivering microsatellites and so on... The new type of fuel for rockets might be another step...