PLASTIC CONVERSION
No doubt, this is a problem that needs innovative ideas immediately. Many are on the search to reduce or even replace plastic. One-use plastics have been outlawed/banned. Innovative companies are producing things out of plant materials as a substitute for plastic. While admirable and important we know there needs to be more done.
While the focus is drawn to one-use plastics like spoons and bottles, there is a much larger problem donating to the landfill on an hourly basis. Industrial plastic waste. Scraps and cuts from industrial manufacturing of products. This stuff is largely unrecyclable and has nowhere to go, until now.
Astera is bringing Plastic Conversion to the world. Long sought after but rarely actually performed successfully, plastic conversion is the idea of taking plastic waste and converting it into something else.
We have created a closed loop system using patent-pending technology in collaboration with Oxford University. We have a process, and a machine, that will take unrecyclable commercial industrial plastic waste of all kinds and convert it into Graphene, Graphite, and syn gas (mostly hydrogen).