We use products made with rubber every day. Not only is the process of creating rubber fossil-intensive, but so too is all that rubber waste. What if you could make new rubber products from old rubber products in a way that captures carbon emissions before they enter the atmosphere while keeping fossil carbon in the ground? LanzaTech and Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, today announced they have entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin, and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate, isoprene, which is the main component of natural rubber. Using synthetic biology for this new path to isoprene, LanzaTech’s nature-based platform has the potential to produce a new sustainable source of rubber through recycling, without losing any material integrity.