From PET waste
back to PET.
Re-Du turns hard-to-recycle PET waste into W2V™ Monomer (BHET), the molecular building block of PET and polyester. PET made from it, W2V™ PET, has the same chemistry as virgin PET, and W2V Monomer feeds the polymerization lines PET producers already run.
W2V™ = Waste to Virgin
W2V™ Monomer
W2V™ PET
How it works
Many kinds of waste in. One clean building block out.
The catalyst picks out the PET and breaks it down to W2V™ Monomer. Colors, caps, labels, adhesives and coatings stay behind as separate solids. The monomer is then polymerized into W2V™ PET.
We start where mechanical recycling stops.
Mechanical recycling grinds and remelts clean, sorted bottles, and it does that job well. Re-Du takes the colored, coated, adhesive-backed and mixed PET it can’t use, including recyclers’ own reject streams, and rebuilds it from the molecule up into PET with the same chemistry as virgin.
For waste producers
Have PET scrap that ends up in a landfill?
Film converters, label and packaging makers, printers, bottlers and textile manufacturers: send us a sample of the PET waste you can't recycle today.
- Colored, coated, printed or adhesive-backed PET
- Multilayer film, labels, textiles and mixed scrap
- We test it in our lab and tell you what it can become
For BHET and PET users
Made from waste, with the same chemistry as virgin
BHET users: PET, polyester and specialty-resin makers can use W2V™ Monomer in place of BHET made from oil.
PET users: bottle, packaging, film and fiber makers can use W2V™ PET, with the same chemistry as virgin PET.
Talk to us about supplyWe go to the waste.
The waste doesn't come to us.
Shipping low-value waste across the country costs more than it's worth. Re-Du's plants are modular and built near the waste: regional plants processing about 10,000 tonnes of PET waste a year, and smaller movable units planned for sites with less volume. Each plant makes W2V Monomer; PET producers turn it into PET.
Modular plants
ORNL
Catalyst technology licensed from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
~$1.1M
Non-dilutive support from the U.S. Department of Energy and the State of Tennessee
Pilot
Signed pilot evaluation agreement with an industrial film manufacturer
10+
Real-world PET waste streams converted in the lab
Have PET waste you can't recycle, or need recycled feedstock?
Tell us what you have or what you need. We reply within two business days.