Ep 22B: Interview with Helias Andriessen from Phos Cycle on fire extinguisher phosphate recycling
Update: 2023-05-17
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Phosphorus can be extracted and recycled from an unexpected waste stream: Expired Fire Extinguishers! Helias Andriessen, CEO and founder of Phos Cycle, out of the UK, tells us how he used his sustainability knowledge and his biopolymers start-up experience to come up with an innovative way to get phosphate back from fire extinguisher powder and turn it into clean fertilizer. Phos Cycle tackles sustainability by reducing what would otherwise be landfill waste and turns into a high value material. Helias tells us about how Phos Cycle started with an idea, developed through research to a pilot plant, and is now growing to larger scales in the UK. He explains why recycling phosphates is critically important for the phosphorus cycle, for agriculture, and why we all depend on it.
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