Cirqular

You put bottles into the blue bin and food waste
into the compost bin. But is any of it actually
used? The problems with our current system are:

1) We don’t know what happens. No one fines us
or tells us what needs to go in each bin or what
happens once the waste leaves our buildings

2) We use inefficient systems that take mixed
streams to centralized sorting plants that
eventually dump or burn the majority of trash
because it's too dirty to be re-used

3) We don’t have enough plants efficiently
converting a specific stream like food waste into
renewable natural gas and compost

Whether it’s a ban on landfills or plastics or most
Southeast Asian countries refusing to take our
dirty plastics, we are already on a path to needing
a new, sustainable system that uses trash
instead of dumping or burning it. Our experience
building the first waste-to-resource grid to
achieve over 86% waste utilization ideally
positions us to create the transition to a cirqular
economy.