Turning sustainability from a rallying cry to
Delivering a better
WASTE PAPER solution.
Our massive consumption of paper and cardboard is creating a two-fold problem. Not only are all those on-demand delivery boxes overwhelming our recycling systems (with many of them going directly into landfills), but more trees are being cut down every day to make more products. This sounds like a job for upcycling!
We’re scaling up a unique technology capable of upcycling post-consumer mixed paper and old corrugated cardboard into recycled pulp sheets and reusable paper, creating a closed-loop, waste-free industry. Because the world needs more trees, not more landfills.
In 2018, China stopped importing 30 million tons of old corrugated cardboard and mixed paper from the U.S., leaving us to manage this massive waste stream.
The corrugated cardboard market is forecasted to reach $352B per year by 2027 due to the rise of “on-demand” delivery.
Each KDC Cardboard facility is capable of upcycling 800,000 tons of material per year.
To change the world, start
with its biggest building material.
Concrete is the second most used resource in the world, right behind water. The way concrete is currently made requires a lot of mining, raw materials, and energy that turns it into a huge negative for the environment. But what if we could turn it into a huge positive?
KDC Concrete is pioneering a new technology that harnesses CO2 from power plants and uses it to upcycle old concrete into new, carbon-negative concrete. In other words, this closed-loop, waste-free process harnesses the biggest, human-caused greenhouse gas and sequesters it forever in a sustainable building material for tomorrow. Because big problems require equally big solutions.
Concrete is responsible for a total of 8% of all GHG emissions across the world.
Concrete is the second most used material in the world, trailing only water.
4 billion tons of concrete are used per year worldwide – the equivalent of building a city the size of Paris every single week until 2050.
