Resurgent Innovations

About Resurgent

Resurgent Innovations is commercializing a patent pending pyrolysis technology that addresses a fundamental challenge in recycling of waste plastics.  This challenge relates to contamination in the mixed plastics feed to pyrolysis. 

These contaminants include materials that are not intended for pyrolysis but that commonly do appear in recycled plastic streams, including paper and cardboard, other resins such as PET, nylon, and PVC, multi-layer packaging, metals, and others. 

The pyrolysis of these contaminants introduces undesired atoms (oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur) into the intended hydrocarbon products.  

Resurgent's patent pending technology is based on the liquid-fed pyrolysis approach which selectively dissolves waste plastics that are intended for pyrolysis (HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, PP) while not dissolving contaminants are not intended for pyrolysis (listed above). 

Thus, these contaminants are simply removed prior to pyrolysis using a simple filtration step.  Another advantage is that the solvent for selective dissolution is self-generated in the process, thus does not require its purchase as a process input. 

With liquid-fed pyrolysis as a foundation, Resurgent seeks to develop innovative consumer and industrial products from the pyrolysis of post-consumer and post-commercial waste HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, and PP, which together comprise over 60% of global plastic waste generation.