Ian Bishop is the CEO and co-founder of Elemental Recycling (ER). Elemental has developed a single step process to recycle all plastics and tires into hydrogen and graphite /graphene. The process is also patented for electronics and greenhouse gases and has the potential to solve single stream recycling challenges while making money for plant operators.
Ian Explores:
- How Ian and Ron made one small change with a Ph.D. chemist and developed a critical innovation for recycling – 1:15
- How a culture of tinkering started with inventing an automated Margarita Machine – 3:35
- How the Elemental Recycling process works – 6:08
- How their new process enables ER to monetize waste streams differently – 13:09
- Why this process can save the world – 18:27
- Why mass producing graphene (an output of the ER process) is a game-changing material – 21:40
- Why Houston has such a strong entrepreneurial spirit – 29:25
- Why the ION district is a hidden gem in Houston – 36:25
- What the basics are which entrepreneur needs to learn – 43:30
