Chemical Recycling

Chemical Recycling is the use of chemical processes to depolymerize waste plastic into useful monomers or other products that have improved purity over the original waste plastic.  This process allows the re-use of the waste plastic, either to make new plastic or to make new polymers with new uses. Plastics are used as materials throughout our world in applications such as coatings, molded parts, packaging, insulation, adhesives and composites just to name a few.  Unfortunately, once they are used, the vast majority of plastics end up in landfills, or worse, as plastic pollution in our environment.

A chemical recycling expert will usually have one or more degrees in either chemistry or polymer science, combined with extensive experience in developing polymers or monomers for various applications using recycled plastics. This type of consultant will be able to provide guidance on how to best design and commercialize chemical recycling processes and products that can help to solve the world’s plastic pollution problem.  They will also be able to assist with developing valuable new products made using chemically recycled plastics.

Large renewable energy and biochemical consulting firms like Lee Enterprises Consulting normally offer a wide range of services in biofuels, biochemicals, biotechnologies, biomaterials, synthetic biology commercialization, feedstocks, and hemp/cannabis.  Theses companies should have business and financial services like due diligence, feedstock availability, grants and loans and bio market research.  The company also offers technical and engineering related services like techno economic analysis, environmental evaluations, feasibility studies, risk analysis and expert witness engagements.   They might also have strategic partnerships in place to assist clients with insurance, legal, accounting, plant fabrication, feedstock procurement.   

With over 150 experts worldwide, Lee Enterprises Consulting has experts in many specific clean and renewable areas, including anaerobic digestion, fermentation, biomass, conversion technologies for things like tires and railroad ties, organic synthesis, fuel additives, ethanol gas, biodiesel fuel including algae biofuels, solid state and industrial fermentation, green energy grants, ag biotech, agricultural waste, alcohol fuels, alternative proteins and animal-free products, sustainable foods, beverage fermentation, biocatalysis, biodiesel conversion, biogas production, biomass power, carbon intensity, co2 utilization, combined heat & power, Fischer-Tropsch technology, food waste, hydrothermal carbonization, industrial enzymes, landfill management, microbial fermentation, organic synthesis, plastic pyrolysis, plastic recycling, plastic waste, pyrolysis oil, reactor design, renewable identification number, the Renewable Fuel Standard (rfs2), solid recovered fuels, torrefaction and torrefied biomass, waste to energy, and waste-to-hydrogen.   This is a multidisciplinary group of green energy consultants that is a virtual “one stop shop” for any client need and handles projects of all types and sizes.

Look at our experts and the services we provide.  Most of our experts are also available to advise and serve as expert witnesses in bioeconomy litigation matters.  For the larger projects, we specialize in putting together full service, interdisciplinary teams with one point of contact.  See video about LEC here.  Call us at 1+ (501) 833-8511 or email us for more information.