When Jeff Gold founded Nexus Fuels (now Nexus Circular) in 2018, he was no greenhorn in environmental services—he first entered the field in the eighties. “The whole idea here, at least from my perspective, was to do something that would actually have a meaningful impact on the issue of plastic pollution—whether it be ocean plastics or terrestrial plastics or landfill or anything else,” Gold, who is also the CEO of Nexus Circular, told The Epoch Times. “While plastics serve a fantastic purpose and enable our modern lives, there’s a very big problem, obviously, with plastic pollution.” Nexus Circular and companies like it show how commercial and technological innovation might offer a solution. For Gold, inspiration struck with an article from a trade journal, about a Swiss company that produced oil from old plastic grocery bags. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s unbelievable!’ But when I thought about it, it kind of made …
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