Investor Briefing
parry ♻ riposte ♻ recycle ♻ repeat · Riposte Laboratories Inc. · 2026. This is the linear reading version of the investor deck; the full slide version lives at /deck/.
The Problem
value thrown away intact
We throw away material with most of its life left.
The waste stream is not a disposal problem. It is mispriced inventory: sorted, concentrated, and delivered to a predictable set of doors every day.
The Thesis
the counter-attack
riposte: the counter-attack after the parry.
Recover material at the point it is discarded, re-engineer it into durable products, and return it to the same community. Short loops, no ocean freight, value captured locally.
(waste stream)
(collect + sort)
(re-engineer)
(finished product)
The Model
collect at the point of sale
Supply we don't have to go looking for.
We host drop-off bins at the businesses whose products become the waste; the material returns through its own front door, pre-sorted and clean. Post-industrial resin like this is cleaner and more homogeneous than curbside plastic, so it commands a premium3; ours arrives free, because no BC buyer competes for PS or ABS today.2
- Hobby & model stores: gunpla runners; single-resin PS/ABS
- Phone / IT repair: cells pulled during service
- Vape & e-cig retailers: spent disposables
- Electronics retail: take-back volume (e.g. Best Buy)
- Makerspaces, cafés & offices: clear PET bottles; spent print spools
- Supply is clean, sorted, and free at the door
Product Lines
three streams, one loop
Three feedstocks. Three product lines.
Plastic Works and Project SPOOL drive near-term revenue and prove the collection loop; Project HEX is the venture-scale opportunity.
Flagship: Project HEX
project hex · modular reclaimed power
An energy tile, not a battery pack.
- 6 × cylindrical Li-ion, 45 × 13 mm · reclaimed and graded
- One cell per edge, wired 6S (series)
- 6 × 2.41 Wh = 14.46 Wh per tile
- Photovoltaic top face · self-charging
- Magnetic edges · snap into tessellating arrays
- Magnet-mount screen for interface + telemetry
The Vision
a self-charging skin
Hexagons tessellate. So we clad the whole home.
Every tile generates, stores, and connects. Snap enough together and the array becomes the building's outer surface: a geodesic home that powers itself. The array scales without gaps, wraps compound curves, and grows one reclaimed tile at a time. The waste stream becomes distributed energy infrastructure.
Project SPOOL
PET bottles to 3D-printer filament
Bottles in. Filament out.
- Feedstock: clear #1 PET drink bottles · rinsed; caps, rings, labels removed
- Method: each bottle cut to a ribbon, drawn through a heated die10
- Output: 1.75 mm rPET filament · the standard desktop-printer gauge
- Second stream: leftover spools & failed prints from the makerspace
- Loop: reclaimed filament rewound onto returned spools, back to the printers
- Showcase: Okanagan Regional Library · Kelowna makerspace11 · pilot
Why Now
the tailwinds line up
The moment for reclaimed material and distributed power.
Feedstock is abundant and free where no one else pays for it; regulation and buyers are arriving on a fixed clock. Riposte sits exactly where those curves cross.
Market
illustrative · placeholder sizing
A large market, entered one bin at a time.
⚠ Illustrative placeholders. Replace [TAM]/[SAM]/[SOM] and the target window with your researched figures before sending.
Business Model
how it makes money
Free feedstock. Multiple revenue lines.
Collection costs stay near zero because partners host the bins, and the PS and ABS we take has no competing local buyer.2 Margin comes from how cheaply reclaimed cells, runners, and bottles convert into finished product.
- Reclaimed cells (6): $[__] · sourced free, graded in-house
- PV top + housing + magnets: $[__]
- Assembly + test labour: $[__]
- Landed COGS / tile: $[__]
- Target price / tile: $[__]
- Gross margin: [__]%
⚠ Illustrative unit economics; replace with real BOM, labour, and pricing figures.
Roadmap
prototype → production → pilot home
From bench unit to a powered dome.
⚠ Replace bracketed dates with your real timeline.
Team & Moat
why riposte wins
Defensible on supply, IP, and brand.
Add founder and team bios here: names, relevant experience, and advisors.
The Ask
illustrative · your numbers here
Raising to reach production.
Use of funds (illustrative)
⚠ Every figure on this slide is a placeholder. Set the raise, terms, runway, and allocation before sharing.
Get in touch
parry the waste. riposte with product.
esh@ripostelabs.xyzRIPOSTE LABORATORIES INC. · CONFIDENTIAL · 2026
Sources & notes
data references
- Statistics Canada · Physical flow account for plastic material, 2022 (released 2026): 5,152 kt discarded, roughly 6.5% reprocessed. statcan.gc.ca
- Recycling Council of BC · no set BC program accepts plastics from business; Merlin Plastics' buy list omits PS/ABS; the nearest published PS/ABS buyers are in Ontario (EPL Plastics, Kal-Polymers). rcbc.ca · merlinplastics.com
- Association of Plastic Recyclers (post-industrial resin is cleaner, more homogeneous, higher value) and indicative buyer ranges (Seraphim Plastics) vs post-consumer bale averages (SMP / Resource Recycling). plasticsrecycling.org
- Recycling Regulation, B.C. Reg. 449/2004 (vapes added Nov 2025; approved plan required Oct 1, 2027, submissions due Dec 15, 2026); Call2Recycle draft 2025–2029 BC plan. Quebec's is the only operating program; no processor is publicly named. bclaws.gov.bc.ca · call2recycle.ca
- ChemAnalyst · US virgin resin pricing, 2026: ABS approximately US$1,987/t; polystyrene approximately US$1,348/t. chemanalyst.com
- Recycle BC · 2024 reporting: over 99% of collected plastics processed in-province (Merlin Plastics the principal processor). recyclebc.ca
- Fire Rover via Resource Recycling · 448 publicly reported fires at US and Canadian waste and recycling facilities in 2025 (approximately $2.5B in damages); vaping devices cited as a driver. resource-recycling.com
- Global Insulation · UpSolv (formerly Polystyvert) began commercial recycled-PS production in February 2026 (approximately 9,000 t/yr), sourcing external feedstock. globalinsulation.com
- Province of BC · EPR Five-Year Action Plan 2021–2026: approximately 315,000 t of plastics per year captured across BC EPR programs (figure originates c. 2019 and may count plastic-containing products). www2.gov.bc.ca
- Polyformer (Reiten Cheng) · open-source, largely 3D-printed machine that turns PET bottles into 1.75 mm filament by cutting each bottle into a ribbon and drawing it through a heated nozzle; the design is released rather than patented. reiten.design/polyformer
- Okanagan Regional Library · public makerspace with 3D printers (Kelowna Downtown and Kelowna-Rutland branches; Makerbot, Bambu Lab X1C, Prusa i3 MK3S+); filament billed at $0.10/g with three free attempts. orl.bc.ca/makerspace
- ChemAnalyst · recycled PET flake/pellet approximately US$1,026/t (US, 2026); and Loop Industries (advanced PET depolymerization, Terrebonne QC) disclosed going-concern doubt in 2026; a reminder that chemical recycling is fragile next to a simple mechanical loop. chemanalyst.com
Prices are indicative published figures as of the July 2026 research, not quotes; company acceptance terms should be confirmed directly.