LanzaTech’s CEO explained how her business is creating products out of pollution.
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00:00I want to hear more about what you're carrying with you.
00:02So let me just take one second to tell you what we do.
00:07So we take carbon emissions and we ferment them to ethanol.
00:12And then we use ethanol as an intermediate from which
00:14to make sustainable aviation fuel, polyester, polyethylene,
00:19et cetera.
00:20And an example of a commercial plant that we have
00:23is a steel mill in China that would normally
00:28emit carbon dioxide and particulate emissions.
00:31We take that, we just pump that into our bioreactor,
00:34and we convert it to ethanol.
00:36That ethanol is then converted to the monomer that ends up
00:41being made into polyester.
00:44This is a Kraghopper's jacket that
00:47is under their CO2 Renew label.
00:51They have a whole line.
00:52And basically, the polyester in this jacket
00:56was going to be pollution.
00:59And that is the circular economy.
01:01No pollution, products.