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We aim to intercept agricultural nutrient runoff before it can create dangerous algal blooms, and use the plant biomass grown from these nutrients for carbon capture and storage as well as sequestration and disposal of incidental pollutants. Our solution also uses recycled plastic as a fabrication material, creating a useful nontoxic
"sink" for the large global pool of plastic waste that is currently not recycled.
Our solution
We are working on prototypes of a modular, customizable on-demand system that deploys Azolla fern cultures to intercept waste nutrients and other pollutants in wastewater, and then harvests the final Azolla biomass for a range of eco-friendly end-uses (eg. carbon sequestration as biochar, a solid medium for hazardous pollutant disposal, phosphorus recovery, etc). We are also performing assays to confirm novel pollutant uptake by Azolla in order to create broader demand and rationale for Azolla-based environmental remediation.
