Frequently asked questions

The founders grew up outdoors in the rural Northwest and watched waste accumulate with no serious response. Co-founder Ron Drake has spent a five-decade engineering career on environmental cleanup. The company's mission is direct: recover the oil, carbon, and steel locked inside end-of-life tires, and extend the same platform to hard-to-recycle plastics over time.

The United States generates more than 250 million end-of-life tires a year. About 79 percent are reclaimed, but the largest single market is tire-derived fuel, where tires are burned for heat, and roughly one in five still has no market at all.

A Mini-Commercial Plant: the unit we are building now, the bridge between the demonstrated pilot and full-scale deployment.

Thermal decomposition of a material at high temperature in an oxygen-free atmosphere. A tire's rubber is made from oil, so pyrolysis returns it toward oil and gas without burning it, leaving carbon black and steel behind. See the Technology page for the full walk-through.

Yes. End-of-life tires are our primary feedstock. Our continuous thermal conversion process is built around them, recovering pyrolysis oil, carbon black, and steel from tires that would otherwise be burned as fuel or landfilled.

Four products from every ton of tires: pyrolysis oil, recovered carbon black, recycled steel, and process gas that powers much of the plant. Details and the recovery balance are on the Technology page.

An estimated 1,200 pyrolysis plants operate in about 70 countries, and most are inefficient batch plants that burn their own gas to heat the next load, creating the emissions and dirty-oil problems the industry is known for. Revive Energy's reactor is electrically heated, and its outputs are scrubbed and purified before use. Same chemistry, different engineering.

Missoula, Montana, by a world-class fabricator, minutes from the founders. Building in America keeps quality and environmental practice under our own supervision and puts Americans to work.

No. Combustion requires oxygen, and the Revive reactor operates with none; oxygen in the chamber is a shutdown condition, not an operating one. Nothing is burned on site: the rubber decomposes without flame, and scrubbing systems clean the gas before it is used.

The reactor is electrically heated and burns no fuel on site, so the conversion step itself produces no combustion emissions. When partners later use the recovered fuels, that use carries a footprint comparable to conventional fuels at the point of use, but it avoids the substantial upstream footprint of exploration, drilling, refining, and long-distance transport that new oil requires. Net effect: recovered fuel displaces higher-footprint virgin fuel while keeping scrap tires out of incinerators and landfills.

Plastics are our phase-two feedstock. The same platform is designed to process difficult-to-recycle plastics once our first commercial tire plants are operating.

First, intercept the inflow: process plastic before it reaches the environment. Once that is under control, the long-term goals are exactly those: recovering legacy plastic from oceans and mining it back out of landfills before it reaches the water table.