From food, for food.

PHAlate Cycle creates single-use plastic food containers from food waste. Addressing the food waste and plastic waste, the system encourages sustainable consumption by creating an easy to use closed-loop recycle system.

User Guide

Hannah's delivery food comes in PHAlate Cycle food container.

Food container expands into a bowl after removing the lid.

Hannah locates the closest the PHAlate Cycle Recycle Station through our app.

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Hannah arrives at the recycle station located in the Whole Foods Market.

Following instructions, Hannah dumps the leftovers in the green organic waste bin.

Hannah touches the screen to begin recycling.

Hannah places the bowl in the circle area to activate material scanning.

Scanning in progress. The scanner uses computer image recognition techniques in combination with machine learning. When plastic polymer is illuminated by Near-Infrared light (NIR), each plastic type reflects a specific wavelength pattern based on its molecular composition.