When Jeff Gold started Nexus Fuels, he measured success in oil droplets.
He was researching a way to use a thermo-chemical recycling process in order to convert certain plastics back into oil, which can then make more plastics. During lab testing, producing 16 drops of clean, usable oil felt like a success.
More than a decade into perfecting the process, the Nexus Fuels plant is now a commercial operation that has produced about 310,000 gallons of oil and diverted more than 2.7 million…