87% of rubber waste is wasted

Yeah.

Thank you very much for joining, and, uh, your startup is, uh, related to, uh, recycling, right? Is that, like, a very, very broad way of putting it?

That's a very, very broad way of putting it, yes.

[laughs] So we're actually working on rubber recycling in particular.

So rubber is one of the m- wi- most widely used materials in the world.

Uh, but unlike, let's say, steel or paper, where almost everything is reused, around 87% of rubber waste is just that, it's wasted.

So that's not ideal, and that's why, uh, we are building something, a solution for this.

The current technology is focused on shredding rubber.

We can already shru- shred rubber.

We can put it into things like sports mats, into playgrounds, uh, but what we can't do is break that, uh, shredded rubber down and separate it into individual materials.

And you're especially focusing on tires as well, right?

On tires in particular because tires are actually the majority of rubber waste.

So there's a lot of rubber products.

Like I said, it's in almost everything that you can think of.

Uh, there's rubber in our hospitals, rubber in our military, uh, and of course, in every car.

[laughs] But tires make up 70% of that waste.

So then you use the old tires to make something new out of it, or, or, or you're kind of, like, making new tires?

What we're doing is integrating into the current process.

So recyclers already exist.

We don't need to own recycling, uh, as a whole.

But what we do is integrate our machine units within the current processes.

So what...

We refine the current, uh, recycled waste to something that can go individually into new rubber products.

So rather than having this rubber mix that can only go into a limited amount of things, we can have natural rubber that's virgin grade, synthetic rubber that's virgin grade, things like carbon black.

All these ingredients can go much easier into something new because it's much easier to formulate something that's a single ingredient.