Gregory Merle, often known professionally as Greg Merle, is an energy infrastructure executive, materials engineer, and project developer with more than 20 years of experience spanning advanced recycling, resource recovery, power generation, industrial infrastructure, permitting, engineered fuels, and environmental solutions. As a director and advisor to Real Cycle, he helps guide the organization’s educational initiatives and strategic efforts to advance practical recycling, landfill diversion, and resource recovery.
Gregory Merle, often known professionally as Greg Merle, is an energy infrastructure executive, materials engineer, and project developer with more than 20 years of experience spanning advanced recycling, resource recovery, power generation, industrial infrastructure, permitting, engineered fuels, and environmental solutions. As a director and advisor to Real Cycle, he helps guide the organization’s educational initiatives and strategic efforts to advance practical recycling, landfill diversion, and resource recovery.
Leadership and Industry Experience
Gregory currently serves as President of FlexOnyx, where he leads development of advanced recycling projects focused on converting waste plastics and other difficult-to-recycle materials into valuable fuels and petrochemical products. He is also President of Riverview Energy Corporation and serves as President of Convergen Energy, one of North America’s leading engineered fuel companies.
Throughout his career, Greg has worked on the technical, commercial, regulatory, and strategic aspects of large-scale industrial projects involving recycling, waste-to-value technologies, refining, power generation, and energy infrastructure. His experience includes project development, permitting strategy, technology evaluation, stakeholder engagement, fundraising, business development, and utility outreach.
Read about his work at FlexOnyx.
Education and Public Service
Gregory earned a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.
From 2015 through 2022, he served as a member of the National Coal Council, an advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Energy, where he participated in discussions involving power generation, grid reliability, energy security, industrial competitiveness, and the future of North American energy infrastructure.
He also comes from a sixth-generation coal and energy family, providing a unique perspective on both traditional energy systems and emerging technologies that support recycling, resource recovery, and the circular economy.
Supporting Real Cycle’s Mission
Gregory’s work with Real Cycle reflects a long-standing belief that solving today’s waste challenges requires practical, science-based solutions rather than slogans alone. His experience developing commercial recycling and resource recovery projects provides Real Cycle with real-world insight into how materials can be recovered, reused, and transformed into valuable products at industrial scale.
His areas of expertise include:
- Advanced recycling
- Resource recovery
- Plastics circularity
- Waste-to-fuels
- Engineered fuels
- Power generation
- Industrial infrastructure
- Project permitting
- Technology evaluation
- Energy policy and regulation
Through Real Cycle, Greg helps communicate the technical, economic, and environmental realities of recycling while supporting public education and informed discussion about practical solutions for reducing waste and recovering valuable resources.
Professional Background
Over the course of his career, Gregory has led development efforts involving energy infrastructure, industrial facilities, advanced recycling technologies, and international business ventures. His experience includes permitting strategy, commercial structuring, due diligence, stakeholder engagement, government relations, fundraising, and project execution.
Prior to entering the energy sector, Greg founded and led Andover America, an international education company serving students, educational institutions, and government-sponsored programs throughout North America, Latin America, Central Asia, and South Asia. The organization built partnerships with institutions including the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education.
Greg has worked extensively in international business environments and is fluent in English, French, and Spanish. His career has included collaboration with engineering firms, technology providers, utilities, investors, regulators, universities, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Gregory remains committed to advancing practical solutions that improve recycling, reduce landfill disposal, and encourage responsible resource management. Through his work with Real Cycle, he seeks to bridge the gap between scientific innovation, industrial experience, and public understanding, helping individuals, organizations, and policymakers make more informed decisions about the future of recycling and the circular economy.