At its most basic, Carbon Upcycling Technologies captures the bad stuff and turns it into good stuff that helps capture more of the bad.
"We're capturing a little bit of CO2, and we're also substituting out something like a virgin plastic that's higher in carbon footprint to get an overall CO2 reduction in the final product," said Peter Zhou, product development lead with CUT. "We're here to help with the net-zero transition to abate and decarbonize heavy industry - so whether that's cement, steel, plastics petrochemicals," Zhou said.
"For example, the corner pieces - that's a $10,000 mould to make those corner pieces. Instead, we can use 3D printing, which costs us about $10 a piece on the corner," said Brant McDermott of CleanO2.