Cecilia Announces Commissioning of Pilot Demonstration Unit, Pioneering the Future of Waste-to-Value Innovation

NEWARK, NJ / ACCESS Newswire / March 21, 2025 /Cecilia has announced the commissioning of a Pilot Demonstration Unit (PDU) to pioneer the future of waste-to-value innovation. Plastic waste is a growing global crisis that must be tackled soon for any substantial change to happen. Over 90% of plastic is not recycled, and existing solutions have routinely failed to handle hard-to-recycle materials effectively.

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Fortunately, Cecilia, an environmentally-minded company founded by Kathryn Carpenter, has found a way to turn industrial plastic waste into clean hydrogen and high-performance carbon products, specifically carbon nanotubes. The company 's proprietary microwave-assisted process enables a circular economy, reducing landfill reliance and creating valuable, sustainable materials.

Its PDU has been commissioned and is set to produce solid carbon materials from industrial plastic waste. This is a significant step toward commercialization and widespread sustainability.

Launch of Pilot Demonstration Unit

The commercial launch of Cecilia 's PDU in Newark, NJ, marks a significant milestone in scaling the company 's technology. This commissioning makes key strides in scaling the company 's patent-pending microwave-assisted process, which turns plastic waste into high-value carbon products and clean hydrogen.

Early scaling was supported through commercialization contract awards from NASA. As NASA plans for long-duration missions, maximization of scarce resources is critical. Cecilia 's technology is designed to efficiently utilize resources in space, and this approach to resource efficiency in space has the potential to improve recycling on Earth. This positions Cecilia 's technology for global impact, both on Earth and beyond.

Building a Better Way

Cecilia is tackling one of the most difficult challenges of modern times in an industry that has seen countless recycling efforts fail over the last twenty years.

However, Cecilia approached the problem in a different way by identifying the commercial proposition first, then backing into the technology that did not yet exist to solve the problem. Kathryn founded Cecilia so that she and a team of specialists could create the technology to turn that vision into a reality.

The Foundations of Cecilia

Kathryn Carpenter has over 15 years of private equity and real asset development experience leading numerous project teams across the development and operations of energy transition assets in the United States.

Through the formation of Cecilia, Kathryn strived to create an economic, bankable project model based on this new technological breakthrough. This model would successfully merge into the traditional infrastructure asset class and further aid in the crusade against environmental waste.

To this end, after decades of seeing recycling solutions struggle to make any significant impact, let alone keep up with plastic waste generation, Cecilia was founded to redefine the lifecycle of plastic waste.

As Kathryn says, "The global recycling system is broken."

She realized the need for a change in the economics of waste amid the worsening plastic crisis. No longer content with being a passive consumer recycler, Kathryn knew that she needed to find a way to make plastic waste more valuable than the landfilling alternative to incentivize the harvesting of the 90% that is discarded each year. Cecilia 's newly commissioned PDU does precisely that.

About Cecilia

Inspired by the legacy of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a scientist who challenged the assumed norms of her time, the team at Cecilia believes that waste should not mark the end of a material 's life. Instead, it should be repurposed into valuable resources.

Thus, the company 's work is driven by a vision of "waste-to-value." In this way, plastic can have a multifaceted life rather than being discarded as waste and polluting the planet.

Visit the company 's website today to see how Cecilia 's team works on recycling and bettering the world around you.

Media Contact

Company: Cecilia
Email: info@ceciliaenergy.com
Address: Newark, NJ
Website: www.ceciliaenergy.com

SOURCE:Cecilia

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