Waste-to-Value Sector Focus
Our investment capital is focused on financing construction-ready projects across all asset classes, structures and geographies that convert displaced resources (formerly known as waste) into products of value. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to
Converting end-of-life tires into the raw materials for making more tires, including recovered Carbon Black (rCB), steel, and various types of surplus energy, most often a liquid “tire pyrolysis oil” (TPO). In recent years, rCB has become a highly valued commodity in the rubber-making industries, the largest volume used for vehicle tires. The US tends to bury these end-of-life (EOL) tires, to avoid fire hazards, or burning them for fuel in certain applications, though neither of these practices are helping decarbonize transportation as the materials contained in EOL tires can be extracted and reused by industry, closing the loop.
Some next generation pyrolysis systems generate a clean oil that can be onward processed into fuel oil or “upcycled” into products that are not combusted in order to further reduce carbon emissions.
Wood biomass for conversion to electricity, heat and biochar
- Biomass Waste-to-Fertilizer conversion, for sustainable and/or regenerative agriculture, such as from manures, biosolids, food processing, etc. More common pathway is via Anaerobic Digestion (AD) producing biogas, AD digestate, and in some cases delivering capabilities for liquid organic fertilizer that is shelf stable.
- Waste-to-Energy, which includes recovered heat, or generated electricity, or low-carbon/clean energy fuels (when proven at scale) for baseload or “firm” power. Sometimes called “bioenergy” — liquid or solid biofuels, or renewable “drop-in” replacement fuels, such as from calorie-containing MSW or plastics, sometimes onward converted into electricity. In some locations, this is also used for backup or emergency power.
- Municipal or Industrial Waste-to-Materials — turning the liabilities of “trash” or production wastes into renewable products of value such as bioplastics, biochar/activated carbon, green chemistry raws, metals, minerals, and if rubber tires are mixed in, ASTM-compliant recovered Carbon Black (rCB), etc. Often the conversion process generates multiple products from a single waste stream, sometimes called a “biorefinery.”
- Waste Management & Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs), advanced MRFs (beyond recovery and recycling, to include “upcycling”), and innovative business models (as a service to the municipality, for example), so long as the technology is adequately proven and projects are well-defined, whether or not close to shovel-ready.
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