PlastiBioFuel operates an enzymatic platform that converts post-consumer PET plastic waste into renewable ethanol fuel. The company's integrated process uses immobilized, reusable enzymes to break down plastic at low temperatures, producing a drop-in compatible biofuel without agricultural inputs. This approach addresses both plastic pollution and food-competitive biofuel production in a single technology.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Global plastic recycling captures less than a third of what is produced, while the biofuel market remains dependent on food crops. Both industries lack an abundant, non-competitive feedstock that does not compete with the food supply, creating a dual environmental and economic challenge.
Solution
PlastiBioFuel provides an enzymatic platform that converts post-consumer PET plastic into renewable ethanol. The process uses immobilized, reusable enzymes to break down PET into its monomers at low temperatures, with the resulting monomer stream converted to ethanol in an integrated process. This approach accepts mixed, contaminated, and dyed plastic grades that traditional recycling rejects, turning waste disposal costs into a feedstock advantage. The output is a scalable, drop-in compatible biofuel produced with no agricultural inputs, offering a clean path to market for circularity and renewable fuel in a single platform.
Target Audience
Primary customers are biofuel producers, waste management companies, and sustainability-focused energy suppliers seeking a non-food-competitive feedstock for renewable fuel production.
Features
- Enzymatic depolymerization technology using immobilized, reusable enzymes that operate at low temperatures
- Feedstock-flexible processing that handles mixed, contaminated, and dyed PET grades rejected by conventional recycling
- Integrated conversion process from plastic monomers directly to ethanol fuel
- Drop-in compatible biofuel output requiring no changes to existing fuel infrastructure
- Energy-efficient process design with no agricultural inputs or food-crop competition