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September 19, 2025 –New York.  Our engineers made a quick “field trip” to Costco today—not for lab supplies, but for snacks from Anellotech’s brand-owner funding partners! Thanks to our collaboration with R Plus Japan the packaging from these everyday products can be recycled at future Plas-TCat®facilities. This Harvest Snap bag looks to be made from plastics such as PET and PE, with a micro aluminum layer and printing ink. We have previously demonstrated the suitability of multilayer packaging like this bag as a feedstock for Plas-TCat. Other materials including nylon, polyamides, and even the leftover crumbs and oils from typical consumer food packaging are perfectly suitable for our technology.

The plastics you throw away, whether it’s a snack wrapper, cookie packaging, potato chip bag, a toothpaste tube, or a plastic toy, can be transformed using our catalytic cracking process. Plas-TCat® takes true-world plastic mixtures and efficiently converts them into the BTX aromatics and light olefins that virgin plastics are made from. This minimizes sorting and maximizing value, and enables a true package-to-package circular economy.

Curious how the wrapper from your favorite candy bar could be processed at our TCat-8® facility? Let us know your favorite snack in the comments and our “shopping” team can find your product and demonstrate its suitability as a feedstock for our process. Stay tuned: next week we’ll share how these feedstocks are recovered and ultimately converted into fuels and high-value chemicals.

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