A New Carbon Economy: Innovating to a Post Pollution Future

We currently recycle metals, plastics and paper - so why not recycle carbon?

There is an abundance of carbon locked in wastes from agriculture, forest, unsorted, unrecyclable municipal wastes and in gaseous byproducts of certain manufacturing processes. Biotechnology enables us to convert carbon pollution into everyday products, turning our carbon problem into an economic opportunity keeping the skies and oceans clean and blue for all!

LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation technology that recycles carbon rich industrial off gases from many industries into fuels and chemicals. LanzaTech’s carbon transformation solution leverages synthetic biology and AI to expand the product portfolio beyond the building block ethanol to other commodity chemicals that currently come from petrochemical feedstocks and underpin the material economy.

The potential for ethanol to be used as blend stock in gasoline has been well established for over a century. Through partnerships with consumer-facing companies such as Unilever, L’Oréal, lululemon, and the Mibelle Group, LanzaTech has demonstrated the opportunity to use ethanol as a platform CarbonSmart^TM intermediate in the production of goods including fragrances, cleaning products, plastics for packaging, and fibers for clothing. By recycling carbon into ethanol rather than starting with virgin fossil fuels, the production of everyday products can benefit from a lower carbon footprint.

This presentation will address the scaling up of carbon recycling technology and what it takes to cross the Valley of Death as an innovator!