Sewage probably isn’t topping any lists of the most promising new sustainability innovations. Beyond being the butt of jokes, what other good can come out of human waste? Well, one company thinks they’ve figured out how sewage can reduce our environmental impact and oil dependence.
Wastewater treatment plants could be a gold mine in the quest to replace the petroleum used to make plastic for packaging. energyNow! correspondent Lee Patrick Sullivan got a whiff of how sewer sludge is being turned into sustainable plastic...
The breakthrough lies in Micromidas’ proprietary process. The company takes sludge, renders it to a liquid and applies a cocktail of designer microbes. The chemical reactions that follow change the liquid’s composition into a thicker product, which is then run through an extruding machine, producing plastic...Read on and see video at: http://www.earthtechling.com/2011/11/poop-to-plastic/
Comment: Mitchell Maloney (Custom Pak Products, Inc.) wrote:
"This process is awesome. What an ingenious way to make plastic while handling a bi-product of sewage treatment"
