MacroCycle Technologies

?? As a member of the ACT (American Circular Textiles), our CEO Stwart Pe?a Feliz joined the Executive Lobby Day in Washington DC, advocating for policies to encourage textile circularity. At MacroCycle Technologies, we are engaging with policymakers to address and educate on a variety of strategic topics, including how innovation in chemical recycling will be required to create a fully circular economy. We are doing our part in demonstrating that chemical recycling is more than plastics to oil, but the pathway towards upcycling end-of-life materials that cannot be repaired, reused or mechanically recycled. Smart legislation and incentives armed with this knowledge will allow sustainable businesses to grow and thrive, while we unleash our domestic manufacturing and increase our supply chain resiliency, which is critical with our current environment and recent news. Great to connect with leaders in government, including with the offices of Senator Ed Markey, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree. We would like to thank the ACT (American Circular Textiles) and Rachel Van Metre Kibbe for making it happen, and to our circular economy peers GAMBERT SHIRTMAKERS, Project Repat, Circ?, Garson & Shaw, LLC, USAgain, Vestiaire Collective, unspun?, and ThredUp for their collaboration in advancing this crucial dialogue. #CircularEconomy #PolicyAdvocacy #Sustainability

Thank you Resource Recycling, Inc. and Antoinette Smith for covering our story! We continue to be excited about your coverage of the plastic recycling space, and next-gen recycling tech especially. https://lnkd.in/gAfxjuxQ

We’re excited to join ACT (American Circular Textiles) in advocating for smart policies that strengthen U.S. domestic textile supply chains and keep the U.S. competitive in textile manufacturing and recycling on the global stage. ? Each year, the US sends millions of tons of textile waste to landfills—a massive missed opportunity to recover and reuse valuable materials through recycling. At MacroCycle, we believe that addressing this systemic challenge requires a systemic solution, and policymakers have the power to help unlock it! ? Stay tuned for updates from our CEO, Stwart Pe?a Feliz, who is in D.C. this week, engaging with legislators on this critical issue. Thanks to Rachel Van Metre Kibbe and the #ACT coalition for the warm welcome!

To reiterate the thoughts of our CEO, the MacroCycle Technologies team and advisors (Thanaphorn Feinberg, PharmD, MS, Edoardo Terreni, Andrés A. Granados Fócil, Bront? McGarrah, Shao Yu CHENG, Davey B, Hector Echaniz - MS Engineering, MBA, Alexander King, Conor Carlin) are thankful for all the support that has enabled these achievements till date! We look forward to the continued support from the community as we overcome the challenges of the plastic recycling industry! If you can assist us in sourcing supply, developing partnerships with brands, or future financing opportunities, please do reach out as we continue to create a circular economy around plastics! #recycling #plastics #team

?? MacroCycle Technologies is thrilled to share the closing of our oversubscribed $6.5M Seed Round!! Plastics are fascinating materials, but also some of the most wasteful materials on the planet. Their benefits come at the cost of pollution, as they end up in landfills and oceans, and contaminate our food supply. A cost-effective and safe technology is needed to close the loop on plastics. That’s what we’re developing at MacroCycle every day. With this funding round, we are now one step closer to this reality as we expand the team and operations to establish MacroCycle's upcycled PET as the most sustainable & affordable circular plastic solution in the market! We are grateful to be backed by a terrific consortium of experienced high-profile investors. Thank you to our co-lead investors, Clean Energy Ventures, a Boston-local climate tech powerhouse and Volta Circle, who is closely linked to IVL, the largest PET recycler in the world. We are excited to leverage their extensive network and cumulative expertise to overcome the challenges ahead scaling up tough tech. Additionally we have the sharp teams at KdT Ventures & Neotribe Ventures on board. That said, MacroCycle would not have been able to get here without the support of our earlier believers - Thank you, Breakthrough Energy Fellows program, for the first infusion of capital into the company. And to Republic, Supply Chain Ventures, Collaborative Fund & Arrigo Bodda for being the first believers of what MacroCycle can accomplish. These are exciting times at MacroCycle, as we continue to seek technological breakthroughs expanding the limits of what is possible in efficient packaging & textile recycling. Please follow along our journey to stay tuned with further news, and please do reach out if you would like to assist us in accomplishing this mission. Together, we can create a cleaner future, for everyone! Read more: https://lnkd.in/e_ueWTPv #SeedRaise #Circularity #Innovation

Exciting milestone alert ? ? These are samples from a recent batch shipped to a customer we are working with to develop our PET for the packaging space— this time, with a focus on transforming green PET flakes into clear PET resin! ????? We’ve heard time and time again that removing color contamination is a major challenge for our customers. That’s why we’re thrilled to see our Solvogenesis? process successfully eliminate the color from green bottles!??? ?? #Innovation #Circularity #Recycling #Solvogenesis #PET #Green #MacroCycle Pic below featuring the amazing Thanaphorn Feinberg, PharmD, MS

Exciting milestone alert ? ? These are samples from a recent batch shipped to a customer we are working with to develop our PET for the packaging space— this time, with a focus on transforming green PET flakes into clear PET resin! ????? We’ve heard time and time again that removing color contamination is a major challenge for our customers. That’s why we’re thrilled to see our Solvogenesis? process successfully eliminate the color from green bottles!??? ?? #Innovation #Circularity #Recycling #Solvogenesis #PET #Green #MacroCycle Pic below featuring the amazing Thanaphorn Feinberg, PharmD, MS

Recently released findings from Elsa Olivetti show the "abysmal" rate of plastics recycling. A bottle deposit program could improved recycling rates from 24% currently to 82% if implemented nation-wide — at a cost of only 1 cent per bottle with robust demand.

To start the new year, we wanted to announce MacroCycle Technologies's latest addition to the team, Bront? McGarrah as our Head of Partnership! Bront? joined us at MacroCycle in November, bringing a wealth of experience in driving innovation and fostering strategic collaborations in the cleantech space. Prior to MacroCycle, Bront? spent over five years at GoogleX’s Moonshot Factory, where she served as Program Manager for a portfolio of groundbreaking climate initiatives, including a pioneering project focused on plastics circularity. She began her career in Boston’s cleantech startup ecosystem at Greentown Labs where she played a pivotal role in government relations and partnership development. With her track record of accelerating impactful solutions in circularity and sustainability, we’re thrilled to welcome Bront? to the team!

We're now #hiring for a new Senior/Principal Process Engineer to scale up our SolvoGenesis technology. If you're excited about taking pilot-scale technologies to real-world scale, and want to revolutionize plastic recycling, or know someone who does - please visit our latest job ad here: https://lnkd.in/e77vTd_J ?? ??