From Clean Technica:
” … You've probably never given a lot of thought to what happens to wastewater, but it's a major environmental issue. Municipal water treatment plants nationwide process more than 150 million gallons of wastewater every day. When the treated water is released into a river or ocean, it leaves behind more than four million tons of sludge, mostly burned or trucked away to landfills. That's a lot of waste, and it's expensive, costing as much as $200 million annually.
That's where Micromidas comes in. They've figured out how to convert sludge into a usable product. “Literally, we are brewing plastic,\” said John Bissel, Micromidas CEO. “It's very similar to brewing beer or anything else. It's been known for a while that a chemical in wastewater can be used to make plastic, but the challenge has always been extracting and converting it at a competitive price compared to the source of most of America's plastic : oil. … “
