Revive Energy
Revolutionizing Recycling
"Our mission is to intercept and responsibly dispose of all plastic before it pollutes our environment."
The founders of Revive Energy Montana are outdoorsmen and conservationists who have grown tired of seeing our planet littered with toxic plastics. We realize that society is rapidly running out of time to save all species from extinction. While many solutions have been tried, they have all failed miserably.
Study after study is showing the effects of nano and microplastics on our ecosystems. Revive Energy has developed a practical solution to eliminate plastic pollution while simultaneously lowering carbon emissions. A recent study commissioned by The World Wildlife Fund found that humans are consuming nearly 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic each week, an amount equal to the weight of one credit card.
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What is the current state of the plastic pollution crisis?
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About 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic has been produced since the 1950s – the weight of roughly a billion elephants or 47 million blue whales.
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Only about 9% of this plastic has been recycled, 12% has been burned and the remaining 79% has ended up in landfills or the environment.
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Up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enters the oceans every year.
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The equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the oceans every minute.
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There are five trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans – enough to circle the Earth over 400 times.
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Countries like Canada, the U.S., and the UK export plastic waste to various countries in Asia and Africa7-9, offloading their trash problem to other communities.
Who is most impacted by plastic pollution?
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Scientists have documented 700 marine species affected by ocean plastic.
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Up to 9 of 10 seabirds, 1 in 3 sea turtles and more than half of whale and dolphin species have ingested plastic.
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In the Canadian Arctic, 87% of birds have ingested plastics of some sort.
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Crustaceans tested at the ocean’s deepest point, Mariana Trench, had ingested plastic.
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People living along rivers and coastlines in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam are the most impacted by plastic pollution.
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Henderson Island in the South Pacific is the most plastic polluted of any island recorded to date.
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Work Ourselves Out of a Job
Eliminate Existing Plastic from Planet
Revive Energy believes that with our technology we will be able to build enough capacity to clean up all waste plastic produced. Our company seeks to safely dispose of the plastic that has been and continues to be produced.
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If all plastic production stopped today, it would still take decades to clean up existing plastics.
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The best-case scenario is that once we are able to process all the waste plastic being produced, we can begin mining landfills and cleaning up the oceans.
What are false solutions to plastic pollution?
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Bioplastics – not as green as they seem, approach with caution. Though companies often market them under the same umbrella, a product is not necessarily biodegradable and may require very specific conditions to break down. They also do not solve the litter or throwaway culture problem.
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Incineration – creates other pollution and does not address the overproduction problem.
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Focusing on end of life like recycling or disposal – we can’t recycle our way out of this crisis.
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Clean up – while clean up efforts help reduce litter problems, they do not address the source of the problem and ignore the unseen plastic pollution – microplastics.
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Throwaway alternatives – replacing one single-use item with another does not necessarily solve the problem or help to address our throwaway culture.
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