Turning plastic waste into renewable fuel.
PlastiBioFuel is developing a microbial process to convert post-consumer PET plastic into ethanol — addressing two unsolved problems, plastic pollution and food-competitive biofuel, with a single technology platform.
Two industries with the same missing piece.
Global plastic recycling captures less than a third of what the world produces. The rest is landfilled, incinerated, or leaked into the environment — eight million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, and PET bottles alone account for seventy million tons of waste annually.
At the same time, the $142 billion biofuel industry remains tethered to food-based feedstocks. Corn and sugarcane drive up grocery prices, consume arable land, and limit how far renewable fuel can scale.
These are not separate problems. They share a structural cause: the absence of a non-competitive, abundant feedstock for renewable fuel production.
A microbial platform that turns PET into ethanol.
PlastiBioFuel's patented process uses engineered microorganisms to depolymerize post-consumer PET and convert the resulting monomers into ethanol. The system is designed to handle the feedstock variability — color, contamination, mixed grade — that defeats conventional mechanical recycling.
Platform characteristics
Founded by a U.S. Army veteran with twelve years of fuel logistics command.
Michael Ward founded PlastiBioFuel in 2025 after more than a decade leading fuel supply operations in the United States Army and downstream industry. The company is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) — a federal designation that positions PlastiBioFuel to compete for set-aside contracts and grant programs reserved for veteran-led enterprises.
Engaging investors, grant partners, and offtake collaborators.
PlastiBioFuel is actively raising capital, pursuing federal funding, and developing partnerships with refiners, recyclers, and renewable fuel distributors. We welcome inquiries from investors, federal program officers, and strategic partners.