Our civilization is just beginning to understand how the waste it generates is impacting the physical environment and how its mismanagement impacts the quality and duration of our individual life experiences. We’re confronted with troubling images of enormous burning dumps, children picking through piles of plastic waste for food, and marine creatures suffering from ingestion of plastic waste.

Then there are the impacts we don’t notice or cannot see with the naked eye: tiny fragments of plastic waste, or microplastics, now present in our soil, food, water, and even our bodies. Microplastics are reported in disturbing quantities in the brain, heart, and reproductive systems. At an even smaller scale, nanoplastics, some replicating the size and shape of naturally occurring molecules in the human body, act as endocrine disruptors. Some even mimic estrogen. All are inflammatory, and chronic inflammation leads to all kinds of negative health outcomes, including cancer.

I think about this every day, driving me to help create a viable alternative to one of the largest contributors: open dumping. To achieve viability, a solution must be sustainable in ethical, practical, and financial terms. This is the PolyKinetix mission: to align purpose with profitability.

My team and I are focused on improving human health and the environment by deploying affordable systems worldwide to convert waste plastic and scrap tires into valuable products.

In this relatively new industry, PolyKinetix wants to help people understand the depth and breadth of the challenge and the possibilities for the future.