TURNING POLLUTION

INTO PLASTIC
NEWLIGHT TECHNOLOGIES
AIRCARBON PLASTIC
Presented by Mikal Norton

NEWLIGHT TECHNOLOGIES

Newlight Industries is a company founded and headed by Mark Herrema. He

was very intent on devising a way to convert the pollutants in the air, namely
carbon, into usable material.

Mark Herrema: Inventor of Aircarbon

and co-founder of Newlight
Technologies

Newlight Technologies
executive officers

Amazing Technology

Landfill: Methane-Carbon
source
This company

Air carbon pellets

has successfully converted a useless mass of

greenhouse gases into usable, ecofriendly plastic called
Aircarbon.

Aircarbon is ecofriendly, cheaper to manufacture than oil-based

plastic, and has a potentially limitless supply of base material,
namely CO2.
Aircabon process

Scientific Fundamentals

A catalyst is used to target CO2 in greenhouse gas and turn it from a gas into a
solid.

A catalyst is a chemical that interacts with another chemical or element which

causes an accelerated reaction.

Carbon Molecule

Aircarbon Production

The Future With AirCarbon

The future goals of this company is to:
Eventually replace all oil-based plastic with Aircarbon plastic on a
global scale
Move oil out of the worlds products
Reduce material production costs
Reduce the amount of carbon in the air

Sources

http://newlight.com/

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