The Tech That Could Turn Plastic Waste Into a Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Two Supertankers Exit Hormuz With Crude Bound for China Britain’s light-touch utility regulation enabled… Plastic is cheap, but it’s an ecological, environmental, andhuman health disasterthat actually costs Americansover $1 trillion a year, according to some estimates.
By 2040, plastic waste management alone will cost the United States nearly$37 billion a year.
We built it to be forever, and without the advanced technology to break it back down into something usable, its unstoppable production momentum will bury us all alive.
Breaking down something that was manufactured to last forever has proved wildly challenging, but one innovator has developed what it calls a “gamechanging” depolymerization technology that transforms plastic waste into its chemical building blocks in just minutes.
Roughly 90% of plastic waste is not recycled.
It’s rarely recycled, and if it is, the products quickly become unusable, and the recycling process itself results in high carbon emissions.
Denoviais looking to change the rules of this impossible game.
The technologyfirst cuts PET plastics into small pieces to increase surface area for fast and more efficient reactions.
The shredded plastic is placed into a special liquid solution designed to react with the plastic at the molecular level, breaking down the long polymer chains in the plastic.
Instead of melting the plastic with high heat, the process chemically splits it.
What you are left with is the raw chemical components of plastic that are then filtered and cleaned in a final step, removing all dyes, additives and contaminants.
The final output is purified base units of the plastic.
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