Turning Waste Plastic Into Valuable Fuel And Why Miami Is Next

Miami has a plastic waste problem. And through our partnership with GreenAi, we may have just found the solution.

Through the Miami Innovation Aerospace Initiative, we are exploring bringing advanced plastic-to-fuel pyrolysis technology to South Florida — a patented, chemical-free process that converts non-recyclable plastic waste into five valuable hydrocarbons simultaneously.

What This Technology Actually Does

The process uses physical pyrolysis — not chemistry — to break down plastic waste. No chemicals are added. No additional refining is required. Chipped plastic feedstock goes in, and finished fuel comes out:

Gasoline (48%) | Diesel (28%) | Kerosene (12%) | Paraffin (5%) | LPG, Coke, and Residue (7%)

The conversion ratio: for every 10 pounds of plastic, the process produces 1 gallon of fuel. At full scale, a single facility processes up to 133 tons of plastic per day and produces up to 166,500 gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel per month. Plants are API-certified and can be deployed in as little as 4 months.

The GreenAi Partnership: Carbon Credits Built In

What makes our partnership agreement with GreenAi so compelling is the dual-revenue structure it creates. GreenAi simultaneously captures real, traceable emissions reduction data from every processing run and generates high-integrity, third-party verified carbon, plastic, and waste disposal credits.

These are not offset certificates. They are verified credits that command premium pricing in both voluntary and compliance carbon markets. The facility generates two revenue streams: fuel sales and carbon credit sales. The economics are extraordinarily compelling.

Why Miami

South Florida generates enormous volumes of plastic waste every single day — from households, maritime operations, tourism, logistics, and construction. At the same time, our region runs on fuel: aerospace facilities, data centers, port operations, defense installations, and transportation networks.

Closing that loop — plastic waste in, fuel and carbon credits out — is not just smart economics. It is a resilience strategy for the entire region. Miami becomes less dependent on fuel imports, reduces landfill and ocean plastic simultaneously, and generates verifiable environmental credits in the process.

What MIA Is Building

The Miami Innovation Aerospace Initiative was founded to bring exactly this kind of deep technology to South Florida. Not just rockets and satellites — every layer of the infrastructure stack that a future-ready Miami requires.

Clean energy. Circular economy. Advanced manufacturing. Workforce development. These are not separate conversations. They are one conversation — and MIA is the table where that conversation is happening.

We are looking forward to bringing this technology to Miami through our partnership with GreenAi. Stay tuned.

Jimmy Hayes is Co-Founder and CMO of the Miami Innovation Aerospace Initiative and Founder and CEO of Data Power Supply.