Crude oil was unthinkable, but we have heard and seen plastic trash being recycled into a variety of completed items that help modern civilization.

Plastic trash has been a "cash cow" for the manufacturing industry over time since it can be recycled into a variety of goods, including bags, furniture, and even building materials.

However, until a 20-year-old student's experiment showed otherwise, the 'layman' believed that extracting diesel from plastic garbage was impossible.

With the necessary support, Emmanuel Nimo, a student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) could boost the country’s fuel sector with his latest invention.

In a TV3 report monitored by GhanaWeb, Emanuel demonstrated the process of using plastic bottles, for instance; the used mineral water containers for diesel.

In a step-by-step process, he adopted a more pragmatic approach of the scientifically tested ‘Pyrolysis ‘procedure, to extract the oil.

First, he squeezed the bottles into a saucepan and placed them on fire.

The bottles melted in a saucepan, leaving behind a thick black substance that he identified as crude oil.

“Plastic is a by-product of crude oil, these black things that have come out. Now let’s pour the other things in it,” he said while moving on to the next stage.

Emmanuel then added some chemicals to it, kept it on the heat a bit further and a full bottle of diesel was extracted.

That’s not all, they tested the substance by using it to power diesel engines of a car and other factory gadgets and it worked.