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Opportunity areas
- Landfill liners
- Landfill bioreactors
- Increasing heating values of waste as countries become more economically developed
- Preventing or detecting the leaking of landfill leachate
- Remediating landfill leachate
- Prevent methanogenesis
- Landfill mining and reclamation
- Detecting methane pockets inside a landfill
- Robotic handling and sorting of municipal solid waste
- Biochar as topsoil cover
- “Pay as you throw” that depends on what you’re discarding
- Classifying and sorting Construction & Demolition Waste (CDW)
- Recycling Construction & Demolition Waste (CDW)
- Prospecting
Jobs to be done
- Get rid of my landfill
- Dispose of my waste
- Sell me copper (or some other material)
- Remediate my landfill
- Prevent my landfill from leaking methane
Companies in this space
- Mint Innovation is the world’s first company to use natural biomass and smart chemistry to extract green metals from waste commercially, accelerating circular supply
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory has patents on recycling rare earth elements
- Roadrunner
- Grey Parrot
- Recycleye
- Urban Machine
- Igneo for e-waste recycling (mentioned by Tina Tosukhowong)