The path to economic and environmental sustainability requires a new way of thinking about waste streams. Tech Futures looks at waste as a renewable resource - a feedstock with high energy potential and a source for new value-added materials.
Waste - a renewable resource
By deploying technology development to the next level - from waste disposal to integrated waste management to resource management - raw waste streams are "re-harvested" and upgraded to produce energy (i.e. renewable natural gas, electricity, heat) and other value-added products, such as chemicals, bio-fertilizers and soil amendments.
Tech Futures has developed exclusive expertise in a wide variety of fields related to renewable natural gas from feedstock management through conversion technologies to end product specification.
Key research areas include anaerobic digestion, composting technologies, bio-filtration of gaseous emissions, waste to water and energy technologies, landfill gas recovery, bioreactor landfills, and value-added product development of waste materials. Feedstocks include industrial, municipal and agricultural waste streams.