Meet Samantha, an aspiring organic chemist who fell in love with materials. Her journey started by following her childhood dream to become an organic chemist soon after her PhD she discovered her passion for bringing things on the road.
Driven by her love to make develop and make new chemicals, she co-founded founded DePoly, a start-up that depolymerizes plastics - or in modern language - the chemically recycles them. Together with two other PhD students, they combined their different expertise to develop sustainable and simple solutions for PET recycling.
The company aims to sustainably recycle PET waste with different initial feed conditions back into monomers. They strive for straightforward chemical reactions with low-energy requirements, that can be even run in the kitchen!
During our discussion, we also talked about chemical recycling, the current bottlenecks, and how their chemical recycling method differs from other processes.
Find out more about DePoly at https://www.depoly.co/ Or reach out to Samantha via Linkedin
