Game ChangersRe-Inventing the Value of Our

Plastic Trash

PLASTICS

Plastic - Everyday Living

Plastic - A Miracle CommodityMid-19th Century ~• limits to natures bounty• physical limitations of natural materials

Innovation in medicine, technology and science, automotive industry and manufacturing industry.

The Toxic Love Affair

What We Know

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Human Health At Risk!• CANCER• OBESITY• DIABETES• ASTHMA

Marine Life Threatened!• 1 million seabirds and • 100,000 marine animals killed every year.

Plastic Waste has become a Social Justice Issue!

Valuing Plastic

Innovators

Business Re-Designed!

Plastic from the Pacific Gyre

Who is tackling the challenge?Cora

Key Challenges

• Detoxifying plastics• How to make a high quality bottle out of degraded,

brittle plastic that has been floating in the ocean for a decade or more

• How to establish a supply chain for a material that’s floating in the ocean 2000 miles off the West Coast

• How to change consumer behavior to stop the flow of plastics into the waste stream

Strengths- Proven process of recycling plastic- Built in use for the plastic- Raises awareness about the issues in

the Pacific and waste plastics

Weaknesses- Not a practical solution to completely

clean up the Gyre- Difficult to establish a supply chain

with a plastic source that is so remote

Opportunities- Partnership with Envision Plastics- Sharing their process with other

companies to increase awareness

Threats- People will continue to send plastic to landfills further degrading the situation in the Pacific

Complex Waste Streams

• Plastics are comparable to steel on a price per pound basis.

• Less than 10% of plastics from complex waste streams such as durable goods are currently recycled.

• Over 90% of metals are recycled from these same complex waste streams.

MBA Polymers

Strengths• Proprietary system for difficult waste

streams• 20 years of successful history• High volume capacity• Produces high quality product,

comparable to virgin petro plastics

Weaknesses• Requires large scale permanent facility

construction • High capital investment

Opportunities• Unlimited supply of plastics waste• Increased cost of virgin petro plastics• Partnership and investment from

Ambienta I• Partnerships with manufacturers to

offer EvoSource closed-loop recycling services.

Threats• Cheap/ free labor for waste sorting in

3rd world countries• Plastics waste availability, much of the

developed world sends its complex plastics off to developing countries for disposal and processing.

Reduces Plastic. Produces Oil. Creates Community

Gasification Chamber

Condensing Cylinder

Movement Tube

Strengths• Proprietary system for difficult waste

streams• Purpose driven company filling a real

human need• Can get raw materials for free or

inexpensively• Investment by Kleiner Perkins

Weaknesses• Name is difficult to pronounce• A medium sized company that is trying

to grow• Process is not zero waste, there is a

waste product

Opportunities• Unlimited supply of plastics waste• Increased cost of crude oil• Partnership with garbage haulers and

recycling facilities

Threats• If virgin plastic becomes more easily

recyclable (using technologies from MBA Polymers for example) could face scarcity of raw materials

• Expects competitors to emerge soon