R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Mph Energy LLC

Re Community Holdings Ii, Inc.

Rick Lehman

Sean P Duffy

Warren Blasland

Michael Francis Dube

Thomas A Perfetti

Bob Horvath

A method of forming a carbon material from the stalk or roots of a plant of thespecies is provided herein, wherein the method includes i) receiving a tobacco material comprising at least one of a stalk material and a root material of a harvested plant of thespecies; and ii) pyrolyzing the tobacco material to remove volatiles and to form a tobacco-derived carbon material. Optionally, the method can further include activating the tobacco-derived carbon material. The tobacco-derived carbon material can be incorporated into a tobacco product. A carbon material derived from pyrolyzing a tobacco material in the form of at least one of a tobacco stalk material and a tobacco root material of a harvested plant of thespecies is also provided herein.

Tobacco-derived carbon material

Methods of creating a batch of recycled glass from mixed color glass cullet. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a glass plant a weight and color composition percentage of a first batch of mixed color cullet. The glass plant also receives a weight and color composition percentage of a second batch of mixed color cullet. The weight and color composition percentage of the first batch and the second batch are combined to generate a combined weight and composition percentage. The combined weight and composition are percentage are used to generate, automatically at a glass plant, a formulation to produce glass of a desired color.

System for and method of mixed-color cullet characterization and certification, and providing contaminant-free, uniformly colored mixed-color cullet

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Princeton, NJ, United States of America

Rick Lehman