Scrap tires and plastics blight our landscape and foul our soil and water. Millions of tons of waste materials are dumped in landfills and scrapheaps for future generations to deal with.
At EKOFULE, we give new life to waste, transforming it from problem into opportunity and into new and green products.
Our 21st century clean-energy technology breaks down tires and plastic waste, which we re-engineer into tomorrow’s safe and environmentally-friendly biofuels and carbon products – in a process that is green, safe, and produces near-zero greenhouse gases.
ELIMINATING TWO ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS
TIRES
Each year in America, we discard over 350 million. They overwhelm our landfills and dumping. grounds, leech methane and toxins into the air and soil, and are a frequent cause of devastating and poison-producing fires and a breeding ground for insects, vermin, and vector-borne illnesses.
PLASTIC WASTE
Over 200 million tons of single use and non-recycled plastics end up littering our streets, polluting rivers and oceans, and killing marine life.
OUR PRODUCTS
AT EKOFULE, we transform these environmental threats into safe, green products.
A clear, non-fossil biofuel that burns cleaner, more efficiently, with fewer emissions – at a cost lower than traditional fossil fuels. Our engineered fuels can be used nearly anywhere fossil fuels are currently used.
A cleaner, safer gas, which we will use to run our own plants and generate steam and electricity. By producing our own fuel, we become 100% energy independent.
Medical-grade, activated charcoal and pure activated carbon products.
Steel reclaimed from waste and scrap tires, used to create new products from yesterday’s discards.
Our plants are a model of efficiency and sustainability, built atop a vetted technology that has been used throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America for more than a decade.
We do not incinerate waste and produce emissions that are released into the clouds, but instead break down tires and plastics into their safe and pure elements of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon in sealed and environmentally-sequestered chambers. The safe and green process produces no greenhouse gases – no toxins, no sulfur, and no CO2. Scrubbers and de-dusters assure that any air released around the plant is as clean or cleaner than the air around it. We meet or exceed all EPA requirements.
By producing products in plants locally, we cut the cost and environmental impact of transporting waste and our products long-distances by truck – further eliminating a huge source of greenhouse gases. Our fuels reduce dependence on drilling, refining, and purchase of foreign oil.
We custom-design, construct, and manage these green-product plants in communities that will benefit from a reduction of waste and be the local source of sustainable products.
We partner with local, state, and federal governments as well as corporate partners – building plants that we will operate for them or building plants for them to operate on their own.
We also partner with waste management companies, recyclers, and tire manufacturers and retailers for our source material and with business, municipalities, and other energy or carbon-product users who will benefit from cleaner, sustainable, and more economical products.
As stewards for a green future, we are committed to cleaning up the environment while creating tomorrow’s sustainable products.
OUR TEAM
Joe Turek
CEO
Joe brings deep engineering, strategic, and business experience working with private and public companies (foreign and domestic), as well in several government leadership positions.
CEO of Akcess BioMetrics, Biometrics 2000, Amica, International Electronics, American Industries, Yaroke USA and MassEnergy H2. Chair of the biometrics technology group in DARPA under NASA. Project Manager of Communications for LEM, Project Manager of vibration analysis for the high-speed train, and Project Manager for the electronic jet engine fuel control test system – all for United Technology. Director of the International Security Group and Chair of the Biometrics Industry Group.
Degrees in MSEE, BSEE and BSME
Robert Lerman
Finance
Robert Lerman brings more than two decades of day-to-day corporate management, working with and building emerging companies.
Bob’s experience spans investment, financing, and industrial activities specializing in emerging growth companies. He has been the CEO or President of several manufacturing companies.
He was the Managing Director of three investment partnerships and co-founded an investment advisory company. Robert served on the Boards of public and private companies.
He was a graduate school lecturer for Rensselaer’s Hartford Graduate School and the University of Connecticut. He co-authored Nonlinear System Dynamics, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1992. Robert holds the degrees of Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (CCNY), Master of Science in Mathematics (Adelphi University) and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (University of Connecticut
Charlie Pascal
Legal and Business Advisory.
Charlie Pascal brings more than a decade working with emerging and scaling companies in financing and day-to-day corporate management.
Charlie is the founder and principal attorney at Pascal Advisory LLC. He concentrates his practice on representing technology and other emerging and established private companies.
Charlie’s representation of companies spans the entire corporate life cycle. Beginning with pre-incorporation planning, choice of entity and formation, Charlie’s guidance continues through debt and equity financings, day to day corporate matters (outside general counsel), and ultimately the execution of an appropriate exit strategy, whether an acquisition, merger, or other transaction providing liquidity to stockholders. A complementary component of Charlie’s practice is his representation of venture capital investors in connection with their investments in early-stage companies.
Prior to founding Pascal Advisory LLC, Charlie was a member of the Business Law Department and of the Technology Companies Group at Goodwin Procter LLP and the Corporate Law Group at Gesmer Updegrove LLP and Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, P.C.
Chuck Goldstone
Strategy. Marketing Communication. Business Development
Author and entrepreneur, Chuck brings four decades of experience in strategic communication,
Chuck has brought nearly four decades of strategic communications and business vision to some of the globe’s most prestigious companies including Pepsi-Cola, Disney, Velcro, Keurig, the United States Air Force, and hundreds of other profit and non-profit organizations in nearly every sector and on nearly every continent. He has helped thousands of startups, emerging companies, and mature ventures define their business story and voice. His communications model has been adopted by scores of accelerators as well as colleges and universities internationally.
Chuck is an author of a definitive text on story and persuasion. He was a nationally-aired commentator on public radio for more than a decade and is currently Professor of Practice at Hult International Business School.