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Water industry event discusses opportunity for hydrogen

Envirotec Magazine

Hazer Group produces fuel-cell grade hydrogen from methane, with high-quality graphite as a by-product rather than CO2. The first was from Hazer Group, an Australian company which produces fuel-cell grade hydrogen and high-quality graphite from methane, with low CO2emissions.

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Replate: Using Tech to Combat Food Waste, Food Insecurity and Climate Change

Green Business Bureau

Replate works with restaurants, caterers, food distributors, offices and other organizations to directly deliver their surplus food to those in need in local communities. Using their patented algorithms, Replate is able to locate food donors, connect them with nearby food rescuers and propose the most efficient path to distribute the food.

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Circular solution for screenings?

Envirotec Magazine

In a year-long trial project that began in February, Carbogenics will put these “screenings” through the high-temperature low-oxygen process of pyrolysis, to produce a patent-pending biochar. Untreated screenings are also a source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Specialist firm develops eco-solution for Japanese knotweed waste

Envirotec Magazine

Excavation is growing in popularity as an alternative to the environmental hazards associated with traditional herbicide treatments, but the vast majority of plant waste currently ends up in landfill sites where it rots, producing damaging landfill gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

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Biodigester in Practice: Real World Examples of Biodigesters in Business

Green Business Bureau

Anaerobic reactors produce methane biogas, while aerobic reactors do not. Both aerobic and anaerobic biodigesters break down organic waste, making them useful to a wide variety of industries. Their ASUR reactor technology yields more biogas than traditional anaerobic reactors, and with a higher methane content.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2022

Greentown Labs

Carbonova Corp utilizes CO2 and methane as a feedstock to produce carbon nanofibers (CNF) that may be used in various fields such as transportation and buildings. Molecule Works develops a solid sorbent Direct Air Capture (DAC) system using a novel reactor and contactor configuration. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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Dealing sensibly with knotweed (with a nod to emissions)

Envirotec Magazine

The Japanese knotweed removal industry generates thousands of tonnes of plant waste every year which is consigned to landfill sites where it either regrows or decays, giving off harmful gases such as methane. A couple of years back we set to work developing a method of converting knotweed rhizome excavated from the ground into biochar.

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