Sines, Setúbal, June 24 (AFP) – The first factory in the world of Ecoslops, located in Sines, has started to produce marine fuel from waste oil collected in cargo ships, after a 18 million investment euros.
The residual oil known as’slops` are produced either due to storage and use of fuel for the operation of ships or in the case of liquid bulk cargo, the waste products (crude and refined, among others) that are in the tanks.
In the new plant operating in the Port of Sines, in Setubal district, this waste earn “a second life” because, instead of being incinerated as is the current practice, are recycled as fuel for ships, said today the agency Lusa Michel Pingeot, president and founder of the French company Ecoslops.
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