About TerraNew
A cost-effective, small-footprint solution for nutrient recovery
The Challenge of Nutrient Pollution
“Nutrient pollution is one of the biggest environmental problems of the 21st century, according to the United Nations Environment Program. Excess nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural runoff (e.g. fertilizer, animal manure), human sewage, and industrial emissions are major sources of nutrients in surface water…Eutrophication, the accumulation of nutrients in an ecosystem, renders bodies of water – fresh and salt water – devoid of the oxygen necessary to sustain aquatic and marine life.”
~ “Nutrient Recovery Gains Momentum,” World Water Magazine, November/December 2013
As populations have grown across the globe, the challenges of treating organic waste streams have increased on a global scale. Many public officials will point to safe, environmentally friendly organic waste disposal as one of their largest and most expensive problems.
In the United States, new federal enforcement of nutrient recovery regulations aggravates an already significant challenge by requiring cities and municipalities to invest tens of millions of dollars to retrofit waste treatment facilities or invest in other costly solutions to achieve compliance by 2020. Municipalities worldwide are facing similar conundrums.
TerraNew has a focused objective: to change the way communities worldwide address the growing challenge of organic waste disposal and nutrient recovery through the application of renewable, sustainable, economically sound technology. Our solution reduces both the costs and the environmental impact of organic waste treatment, and transforms recovered nutrients and carbon compounds into environmentally and economically beneficial substances that can contribute to local agricultural productivity.
Chemistry complements engineering to produce better results
TerraNew’s process is not simply an evolution of existing separation-based waste treatment processes, but an entirely new, chemistry-based technology.
Traditional separation processes focus primarily on water reclamation…an undeniably vital goal. Addressing the resulting waste stream using separation processes alone is time-consuming, requires large areas of land, and is costly. It is also visually unappealing and produces smells that reach surrounding communities.
TerraNew’s full-service solution, implemented as a complement to traditional engineering-based processes, helps waste treatment facilities achieve better results with minimal investment.
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Regulatory ComplianceTerraNew’s solution converts organic waste streams into Exceptional Quality ZeFluent™, which can increase the ability of waste treatment facilities to comply with government regulations efficiently.
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Results-based Business ModelTerraNew offers a cost-sharing model, in which the cost-savings produced by the TerraNew process are divided between TerraNew and the waste treatment facility depending on where the waste treatment facility chooses to deploy TerraNew’s system. The more costs saved by the TerraNew process, the greater the percentage of the cost-savings returned to the facility.
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SustainabilityTerraNew’s system is sustainable in every sense. It recaptures more than half of the energy required to run the process; represents a small footprint relative to the volume of waste it can process, minimizing the amount of land and other resources required to process waste streams; and ultimately converts organic waste into a beneficial resource by recycling nutrients for use by local agricultural enterprises.