MacroCycle Technologies

✨ A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Incredible Interns at MacroCycle Technologies ✨ As the summer comes to a close, Jan-Georg Rosenboom and Stwart Peña Feliz want to take a moment to express their deepest gratitude to our six outstanding interns who have been an integral part of the MacroCycle family these past few months. Akorfa Dagadu, Kenneth Oranga, Beatrice Casartelli, Helen Gao, Annabella Gong, Katelyn Howard, from day one, each of you brought unparalleled enthusiasm, fresh perspectives, and a relentless drive that has left a lasting impact on our team. Your dedication and hard work have helped us overcome challenges and reach new milestones, while enriching our company culture. Watching you all grow, learn, and contribute so meaningfully has been truly inspiring. We are not just bidding farewell to you as interns but as valued team members and emerging leaders. We can't wait to see where your journeys take you next, and we are confident that you will continue to achieve greatness wherever you go. From all of us at MacroCycle, thank you for your remarkable contributions and for making this summer unforgettable. Our doors are always open, and we look forward to crossing paths again in the future. Wishing you all the very best in your next adventures! #ThankYouInterns #TeamMacroCycle #FutureLeaders #Grateful

♻️MACROCYCLE X THE ENGINE⚙️ We are thrilled to announce this special collaboration! MacroCycle is partnering with The Engine Accelerator to bring our innovative recycling solutions to life locally, by collecting the bottles used out of The Engine building, and using them to produce recycled product for the customers excited to test MacroCycle's materials. We are happy to have a positive impact in the community we’re part of! #plastics #recycling 

♻️MACROCYCLE'S PILOT PLANT⚙️ MacroCycle is commissioning its state-of-the-art pilot facility! From our 145 square foot space, we are set to revolutionize plastic recycling. This plant will have a capacity to upcycle up to 200,000 bottles annually. This milestone marks a significant leap in our mission to combat plastic waste and promote sustainability through cutting-edge technology. Please feel free to reach out for a tour of the facilities here at The Engine Accelerator. #plastics #recycling

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THE AMERICAS ACT📝♻️ The Americas Trade and Investment Act ("Americas Act") is a bipartisan, bicameral piece of legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy and Michael Bennet. The visionary bill aims to boost green trade and manufacturing competitiveness in the Western Hemisphere, through promoting near shoring and on shoring manufacturing. Importantly, the bill includes a historic emphasis on textile circularity, providing circular textile businesses incentives for the first time in federal history, without using consumer tax dollars. The current textile manufacturing landscape has caused unprecedented natural resource depletion, environmental and labor exploitation, emissions, and waste. Additionally, over the last 30+ years the United States has lost the jobs and corresponding economic opportunities that textile manufacturing once provided to our county. In the way that public policy has supported renewable energy and transportation manufacturing supply chains, Americas Act enables U.S. companies to combat these consequences while preparing for the future,. The bill aims to level the playing field for greener textile manufacturing, through bolstering U.S. circular textile manufacturing, and in providing low cost public funding and tax incentives. MacroCycle’s core value is promoting circularity and sustainability; we support ACT (American Circular Textiles) and the Americas Act in hope for a more circular and informed future. #upcycling #polyester #circularity

♻Education on Plastic Recycling⚙ There are several technologies being developed in the recycling industry to be able to produce virgin/virgin-grade plastics. These technologies are on a high-level: PLASTIC-TO-FUEL (PYROLYSIS): Using heat, this process breaks down the polymer to fuel, and re-introduce this early in the established petrochemical process to undergo all the traditional steps to arrive back at the original polymer. This technology has the advantage of breaking down hard-to-recycle plastics with a large potential infrastructure, but it can be quite energy intensive with low target product yields, resulting in increased carbon emissions comparing production only (that is, when not accounting for incineration) per available LCAs. PLASTIC-TO-MONOMER (METHANOLYSIS, ENZYMOLYSIS, etc.): These plastic-to-monomer technologies work by breaking the polymers into their building blocks, monomers. These monomers are then also integrated into established petrochemical processes, but further along the process chain to be remade into the original polymers. The innovation in this space is how efficiently or how little you have to break down the polymer to recycle the plastic. Different technologies have different advantages, but they all have to rely on the petrochemical industry, providing limited energy and carbon emission reductions. MACROCYCLE: Through MacroCycle's Solvogenesis™ process, the polymer is never broken down. As a result, MacroCycle can provide virgin-grade plastic through a more energy efficient pathway that is not dependent on the petrochemical industry. This results in significantly lower carbon emissions, and avoiding a reliance on the petrochemical industry to make the industry desired product. MacroCycle's technology provides a new pathway to upcycle plastics more efficiently. And since it does not rely on the petrochemical industry, it can be fully electrified with renewable energy to achieve recycling with zero scope 1 emissions!

♻🗑The plastic problem Did you know that the plastic dumped in our oceans eventually ends up as microplastic in our food? Or that the global CO2 emissions of just plastic are equivalent to those of the entire country of Japan, which is the 5th largest CO2 emitter in the world? According to some sources, the plastic market size surpassed the $600B threshold between 2022 and 2023, and continues to grow: we must do something. And we are. MacroCycle Technologies is revolutionizing the plastic recycling market by recycling lower-grade plastic, starting with PET and polyester, into virgin-grade PET, without green premium nor carbon emissions. MacroCycle believes that plastic recycling can eliminate our plastic dependency from fossil fuels and keeping the plastics out of the environment, allowing society to enjoy the benefits without the harms of plastic. Follow us and our journey to reduce the plastic problem, one bottle and one t-shirt at the time. #plastic #recycling #zerocarbon

MacroCycle Technologies is excited to also welcome the Business interns for the summer! Kenneth, our Polyester Supply Chain Analyst intern, is an MIT rising junior from Kenya, studying Mechanical Engineering and Art & Design. At MacroCycle, he is tasked with mapping the polyester supply chain in the country. Beatrice, our Client Acquisition intern, is an MIT rising junior from Italy, studying Management and Mathematics. This summer she is working on prospecting potential client companies whose values and mission align with MacroCycle's. Annabella, our Finance intern, will be pursuing her MBA at MIT Sloan in the fall and previously spent the last five years as a public impact investor at Wellington Management. She is excited to map out the company’s financial pathways for capital projects. We look forward to working with them to achieve our recycling goals! #PET #upcycling #plastic

MacroCycle Technologies is excited to welcome the technical summer interns! Katelyn, our Polymer Synthesis intern, is a rising junior at MIT studying Chemistry & Biology. Her background in polymer synthesis will help Macrocycle advance in chemical recycling R&D. Akorfa, our Supply Logistics and Pilot plant intern, is a rising junior studying Chemical Biological Engineering at MIT. This summer she is assisting the technical team in setting up our pilot plant and extracting volatiles from our final product. Additionally, she is working with the business team by mapping out our international supply chain for PET waste. Helen, our Recycling Engineering intern, is a rising junior at Tufts University studying chemical engineering.  Her research interests lie in the fields of materials science and environmental sustainability. She will be working on separation methods of PET recycling. We look forward to working with them to achieve our recycling goals! #PET #upcycling #plastic

Proud of our friends at GreenLabs Recycling who keep pushing the waste collection boundaries to make the Boston area more circular. Excited to be part of the solution as we convert their collected plastic waste bound for incineration into virgin-grade PET!