chemical-recycling
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Brian Bauer
Brian Bauer is the co-founder, president, and CEO of Resynergi, a Rohnert Park, California advanced-recycling company turning hard-to-recycle plastic into fuel and chemical feedstock with Continuous Microwave Assisted Pyrolysis (CMAP). A Stanford-trained mechanical engineer who spent 25 years in telecom and semiconductors, Bauer co-founded Resynergi in 2015 with longtime colleague Jason Tanne after a decade of conversations about green technology. His pitch: microwaves heat plastic roughly 10-20 times faster than conventional pyrolysis, in a modular system small enough to deploy near the waste itself. In 2025, a partnership with Lummus Technology brought Resynergi's modules to commercial availability.
Miranda Wang
Miranda Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Novoloop, a climate-tech materials company turning hard-to-recycle polyethylene waste into virgin-quality performance plastics. She started the venture as a Vancouver high-schooler after a field trip to a waste transfer station, gave a TED talk at 19, and has since built a chemical-upcycling process (ATOD) into a commercial-scale operation, earning the Rolex Award for Enterprise, a UN Young Champions of the Earth honor and the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award along the way.