The input materials for the process can be post-consumer and/or post-industrial polyesters, both from bottles (colored, coloreless, transparent, opaque) and textile (100% polyester but also with up to 30% of other materials like PU, cotton, polyether-polyurea, etc.).

We need to power the plant: thanks to our engineering effort, electricity is the most relevant energy source we use. This means that, depending on what the best available energy source is, would determine where the plant is built (e.g., wind turbines, solar panels or any other renewable source) we can further reduce the environmental impact.

The material is pre-worked to optimize the reaction condition, a big part of an industrial process are the reaction times and yield. This can be easily translated in a huge reduction both of the energy consumption and of the CO₂ generation.

Depolymerization is achieved through a microwave-assisted alkaline hydrolysis, which makes our reaction much faster than usual (less than 10 minutes). The process can be then repeated an unlimited number of times, without any degradation or side effects: every time we are depolymerizing, we are practically "erasing" the history of that polymer and of its physical and chemical properties. Furthermore, this approach allows us to remove impurities like dyes and colorants, leading to perfectly clear recycled PET.

The reaction output is a mixture of building blocks derivatives, which are then isolated and purified. In fact, very often the most critical part in a chemical reaction is not obtaining a product, but obtaining it as pure as possible, to avoid potential side effects in any of its further uses.

NaCl generated from the reaction work-up is then collected and used to re-obtain NaOH and HCl for the next de-polymerization cycle. Electrolysis, a process by which electric current is passed through a substance to effect a chemical change (i.e., loses or gains an electron, oxidation or reduction), is the enabling technology that make the process circular and profitable.

Monomers can be endlessly re-polymerized to provide brand new virgin PET or any other polymer that is using one of the monomers. As mentioned for the depolymerization step, every time we are running a polymerization we are obtaining a brand new polymer, where the technical features depend on the monomer purity and on the polymerization conditions.

Polymers obtained using these monomers can be used to produce new bottles/trays and/or new garments without using any material from fossil fuels, as it works as a completely new material. It means we potentially do bottle to textile, textile to textile, or even textile to bottle, moving from a linear to a circular approach.