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Plastic Harvest Goals

For over 15 years, our purpose has been to help rid our planet of omnipresent plastics viewed as trash, while also helping to create markets for these castoffs. We use engineering problem solving techniques to bring value recovery technologies to the forefront. With demonstrations and other educational forums, we inform the public about ways they can help reclaim value from discarded or non-recycled plastics. We serve the needs of agriculture foremost, however since plastic is everywhere our mission has transitioned to include general societal needs as well.

There are three areas we address:

  1. Strategies to encourage recycling of plastics
  2. Methods to make plastic-derived fuel -- Plastofuel® 
  3. Ways to recover clean energy from non-recycled plastics
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