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INSIDE CORSAIR’S SA KAEO WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILIT

Name: INSIDE CORSAIR’S SA KAEO WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILIT
Uploaded: 2025-11-25T14:25:10+00:00
Duration: 2 min 57 s
Channel: Hector R. Perdomo Sr.
Description: The video provides a walkthrough of Corsair’s management of a Thai government‑owned landfill in Sa Kaeo, which has accumulated over 50 million kg of…

25 Nov 2025 · 3 min

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The video provides a walkthrough of Corsair’s management of a Thai government‑owned landfill in Sa Kaeo, which has accumulated over 50 million kg of mixed waste over three decades. Because Southeast Asian communities rarely separate waste at the source, all garbage arrives in a single stream, requiring Corsair to employ both mechanical and manual sorting to extract plastics, while metals, glass, and paper are diverted to other recyclers. The extracted plastics are washed, dried, and baled to ensure a dry, clean feedstock before being loaded into pyrolysis reactors. Each reactor holds 8,000–9,000 kg of plastic per batch, with a processing cycle of 20–24 hours that can convert roughly 1,000 kg of plastic into about 900 L of oil. The speaker notes that wet or organically contaminated plastics hinder oil production and generate additional waste, emphasizing the importance of feedstock quality for efficient pyrolysis.

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about the daily process of what we do here at Corsair and how the pyrolysis works. First of all, everything always begins with the raw material. For the last 5 years, Corsair has been managing a Thai government-owned landfill and waste management facility based in the city of Sakaeo. On this landfill, there has been more than 50 million kilos of mixed waste accumulating for the past 30 years. What we are doing is we are removing this many times decades-old plastic garbage out from the landfill, together with receiving on a daily basis new mixed waste coming from the local community. Unfortunately, the situation here in Southeast Asia is that there is very little any type of waste separation taking place at the source. This basically means that all the garbage goes into one garbage bin, which then gets collected by the garbage trucks and eventually dumped into the landfills. What we do is by using of both mechanical and manual sorting systems, we separate the plastics out from all of this mixed waste. Any remaining elements of metal or glass or paper is then being separated as well and provided for other recyclers, while we focus on the plastic that is then processed further to be ready for recycling. In order for us to produce the highest quality pyrolysis oil, we always want the plastic waste to be as dry and as clean as possible. Therefore, in order to avoid any residue, we often process the plastic by first washing it and then drying it. Now, once we have processed the plastic, it gets baled and eventually then loaded into the pyrolysis reactors. One individual reactor is typically able to hold as much as 8,000 to 9,000 kilos of plastic waste per a processing cycle or a batch. The processing cycle to convert this plastic waste into oil would typically take between 20 to 24 hours. During this time, we are able to convert this 1,000 kilos of plastic waste for example, into as much as 900 liters of oil. But of course, if the plastic is wet or there is any other type of material like organic waste, food waste, or anything else there, we obviously cannot produce oil from, but it will add up on unnecessary waste.