Tyler Eglen serves as the technical lead for the ASU Walton team in their development of small-medium scale community based recycling operations. He runs the Circular Living Lab, an educational pilot at Arizona State that researchers the methods and machines of plastic recycling by converting the universities waste into new durable goods. He recently helped launch a new plastics microfactory in partnership with the City of Phoenix, Goodwill, and Hustle Phoenix that will further prove the tenets of the circular economy.