UBQ™ material
is the most climate-positive thermoplastic on the market.
An elegant solution to an urgent problem: converting landfill waste into UBQ™ material.
UBQ™ material substitutes oil-based plastics, wood, or metal in thousands of applications, empowering industries to choose a positive environmental impact.
With a patented waste conversion process, UBQ transforms heterogeneous waste streams into a novel bio-based thermoplastic material.
The Process
UBQ™ is converted from 100% unsorted household waste diverted from landfill – everything from food residues and mixed plastics to cardboard, paper, and even dirty diapers. Metals and minerals, which have high recyclability, are removed and sent over to traditional recycling streams. All that remains is transformed into UBQ™ – so nothing goes to waste.
The vast majority of household waste consists of organic materials. UBQ’s advanced waste conversion technology breaks them down to their basic particulate constructs—lignin, cellulose, fibers, and sugars—and then reassembles them into a matrix. The remaining mixed plastics are melted and bound into the matrix to create UBQ™, a composite thermoplastic material.
Unlike recycling, which requires a sophisticated infrastructure of separating and sorting into homogenous waste streams, UBQ uses all the waste in a single, heterogeneous stream.
The UBQ conversion process was developed to have ZERO impact, with a relatively small amount of energy and no production waste, effluents or use of water.
UBQ™ is not a plastic treatment or recycling technology; it is a holistic process complementary to these methods. UBQ Materials addresses the waste crisis as a whole by functioning independently of recycling or waste management infrastructures in its resources, processes, and economics. The ability to convert organic household waste into sustainable bio-based material makes the UBQ process a novel, climate-positive approach that’s clean, recyclable, and cost-effective.
