PureCycle, Churchill Container, 4ocean, College Football Playoff Publish Sustainability Case Study
ORLANDO, Fla. – February 11, 2026 – PureCycle Technologies (Nasdaq: PCT), announced today that in collaboration with Churchill Container, 4ocean and the College Football Playoff (CFP) it has published a case study highlighting how the collaborative partnership elevated the sustainability of the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship.
In addition to the sale of sustainable cups made from 100% PureFive® resin, thanks to Churchill Container’s certified partnership with 4ocean, every 20 cups sold during the national championship game helped fund the removal of one pound of trash from the ocean. Having sold 18,000 cups during the game, and with CFP committing to fund the removal of 5,000 pounds of waste material in waterways, a final total of 5,900 pounds of trash will be removed from the ocean through the collaboration.
“Large-scale sporting events often bring sustainability challenges, particularly when it comes to waste,” said PureCycle CEO Dustin Olson. “That’s why we’re proud to publish this case study highlighting our partnership with Churchill, 4ocean and the College Football Playoff on this first-of-its-kind initiative. We hope that the success of this collaboration inspires more sports organizations to explore sustainable concession solutions and use these high-visibility moments to demonstrate what a circular economy can look like in practice.”
PureCycle’s dissolution recycling process turns polypropylene into like-virgin material. Churchill Container then incorporates this recycled polypropylene into its Run It Back™ cup series. By converting discarded plastic into durable, high-quality cups and containers, concession operators and premier sporting events, such as the CFP National Championship, can provide fans with souvenir products made through a more sustainable, circular approach. quality cups and containers, concession operators and premier sporting events—like the College Football National Championship—can provide fans with souvenir products made through a more sustainable, circular approach.
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Christian Bruey
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About PureCycle Technologies
PureCycle Technologies LLC., a subsidiary of PureCycle Technologies, Inc., holds a global license for the only patented dissolution recycling technology, developed by The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), that is designed to transform polypropylene plastic waste (designated as #5 plastic) into a continuously renewable resource. The unique purification process removes color, odor, and other impurities from #5 plastic waste resulting in our PureFive™ resin that can be recycled and reused multiple times, changing our relationship with plastic.
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About Churchill Container, LLC
For over 45 years, Churchill has been producing collectible, reusable, and recyclable drinkware and foodware in our Kansas City area manufacturing plant. As the #1 supplier of collectible concessions items in stadiums and arenas, we’re committed to enhancing the guest experience through great product design and continuous innovation. As an active member of the Green Sports Alliance, we take sustainability seriously. We reuse or recycle all our own plastic waste and design all of our products to be reusable or recyclable.
About 4ocean
4ocean is an ocean cleanup company based in Boca Raton, FL, that’s dedicated to ending the ocean plastic crisis. As a Public Benefit Corporation and Certified B Corp, they harness the power of business to fund a global cleanup operation that recovers millions of pounds of plastic and other debris from the world's ocean, rivers, and coastlines each year.
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Website: 4ocean.com
Twitter: @4ocean
Facebook: @4oceanBracelets
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Forward-Looking Statements
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The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of PureCycle’s management and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of this press release. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in each of PureCycle’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and PureCycle’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for various quarterly periods, those discussed and identified in other public filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission by PureCycle and the following: PCT's ability to obtain funding for its operations and future growth and to continue as a going concern; PCT's ability to meet, and to continue to meet, applicable regulatory requirements for the use of PCT’s PureFive™ resin in food grade applications (including in the United States, Europe, Asia and other future international locations); PCT's ability to comply on an ongoing basis with the numerous regulatory requirements applicable to the PureFive™ resin and PCT’s facilities (including in the United States, Europe, Asia and other future international locations); expectations and changes regarding PCT’s strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans, expansion plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and PCT’s ability to invest in growth initiatives, which could be impacted by significant changes to tariffs on foreign imports; the ability of PCT’s first commercial-scale recycling facility in Lawrence County, Ohio, the Ironton Facility, to be appropriately certified by Leidos, following certain performance and other tests, and commence full-scale commercial operations in a timely and cost-effective manner, or at all; PCT’s ability to meet, and to continue to meet, the requirements imposed upon it and its subsidiaries by the funding for its operations, including the funding for the Ironton Facility; PCT’s ability to minimize or eliminate the many hazards and operational risks at its manufacturing facilities that can result in potential injury to individuals, disrupt its business (including interruptions or disruptions in operations at its facilities), and subject PCT to liability and increased costs; PCT’s ability to complete the necessary funding with respect to, and complete the construction of its new polypropylene recycling facility in Thailand, its first commercial-scale European plant located in Antwerp, Belgium, and the multi-line purification facility to be built in Augusta, Georgia in a timely and cost-effective manner; PCT's ability to execute its growth plan to bring an additional one billion pounds of installed polypropylene recycling capability online before 2030, including its ability to meet related construction, regulatory, and financing requirements; PCT’s ability to procure, sort and process polypropylene plastic waste at its planned plastic waste prep facilities; PCT’s ability to maintain exclusivity under The Procter & Gamble Company license; the implementation, market acceptance and success of PCT’s business model and growth strategy; the success or profitability of PCT’s offtake arrangements; the potential impact of economic, business, and/or competitive factors, including interest rates, availability of capital, economic cycles, and other macro-economic impacts (such as tariffs); changes in the prices and availability of materials (such as steel and other materials needed for the construction of future PreP and purification facilities), including those changes caused by inflation, tariffs and supply chain conditions, such as increased transportation costs, and our ability to obtain such materials in a timely and cost-effective manner; the ability to source feedstock with a high polypropylene content at a reasonable cost; PCT’s future capital requirements and sources and uses of cash; developments and projections relating to PCT’s competitors and industry; the outcome of any legal or regulatory proceedings to which PCT is, or may become, a party; geopolitical risk and changes in applicable laws or regulations; the possibility that PCT may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors, including interest rates, availability of capital, economic cycles, and other macro-economic impacts; turnover in employees and increases in employee-related costs; changes in the prices and availability of labor (including labor shortages); any business disruptions due to political or economic instability, pandemics, armed hostilities (including the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East); the potential impact of climate change on PCT, including physical and transition risks, higher regulatory and compliance costs, reputational risks, and availability of capital on attractive terms; and operational risk.
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