Chemicals from CO2. Sustainably.
The Plastic Paradox:
Plastics are indispensable for nearly every industry, but they place an enormous burden on the environment.
Plastic production accounts for 8% of global oil and gas use and 4% of greenhouse gas emissions annually, with these numbers projected to double in the next 30 years.
Each year, more than 300 million tons of plastic waste is generated, ending up in landfills and incinerators, or improperly released to the environment.
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The Critical Need:
To be viable on a meaningful scale, sustainable alternatives to conventional plastics cannot sacrifice performance or cost.
Making plastics from biomass can reduce the environmental footprint, but today’s bio-based plastics are made from food sources at high cost and perform worse than conventional plastics.
The Solution:
ReSource has created technology to produce high-volume plastics that are made from truly sustainable feedstocks – CO2 and inedible biomass – yet outperform conventional materials and have favorable end-of-use options.
Technology
Our technology is a revolutionary process to make a bio-based platform chemical known as FDCA, which can be used to make plastics (such as PEF) that have better physical properties and superior performance over plastics made from fossil fuels.
Current technologies for making FDCA require sugar from food products as the raw material, which compromises sustainability. In addition, they utilize extremely complex process chemistry, which has made large-scale production uneconomical.
The raw materials for our process are CO2 and inedible biomass. Our proprietary technology eliminates two thirds of the steps that are required to make FDCA from food, resulting in dramatically reduced production costs that will enable market penetration for high-volume applications. In addition to favorable economics, we make it possible to produce FDCA with negative emissions.
All other technologies
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Food
Use food as the raw material •
Increase demand for cropland •
Extreme process complexity •
High cost •
FDCA
PEF Plastics
Our technology
CO2
Inedible Biomass
• Uses inedible biomass and CO2
• No land use changes
• Low complexity
• Low cost
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Applications
PEF offers sustainability and performance for packaging and textiles
Cartons
Bottles
Films
Trays
Pouches
Textiles
FDCA can also be used to make non-toxic plasticizers
Interested testing ReSource FDCA?
Click here to inquire.
Sustainability
Our technology has many environmental benefits
Carbon-negative process
Increased Shelf-Life
Less Plastic Usage
No greenhouse gas emissions from land use change
Less food waste
No impact on ecosystems & biodiversity
Team
Aanindeeta Banerjee, PhD
Co-Founder & CEO
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Paul Lauridsen, PhD
Scientist I
Amy Frankhouser, PhD
VP Chemistry
Eddie Parra, BS
Engineer I
Feng Cheng, PhD
Process Development Engineer
Prof. Matt Kanan, PhD
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Advisor
Investors & awards
Angel investors: Matthew Berger and Adam Winkel.