CLEARAS, a company who specialises in plant-based wastewater treatment, has partnered with BLOOM to create sustainable materials from their algae biomass and remove greenhouse gases from the environment.
CLEARAS uses algae cells to remove toxic substances from wastewater to deliver water quality that meets regulations. The system replaces chemical operations that produce harmful sludge as a by-product. Once harvested, their plant-based biomass can be used to replace fossil fuels in creating everyday products such as running shoes, yoga mats and surfboards.
BLOOM CTO, Ryan Hunt said: “By collaborating with CLEARAS, we incentivise environmental restoration when consumer product brands use our BLOOM sustainable materials. The CLEARAS system uses sunlight and wastewater to produce clean water and valuable algae biomass with certifiable positive impact. The BLOOM technology uses extrusion to combine a variety of polymers and algae biomass that help restore the environment. Working together, we can clean air and water while reducing petroleum-based plastics in consumer products using algae.”
The initial biomass will come from Wisconsin where they are using CLEARAS Advanced Biological Nutrient Recovery (ABNR) to recover the phosphorous and nitrogen from the wastewater. That system currently cleans over 150,000 gallons of water per day, consumes 176 tons of greenhouse gases per year and generates over 160,000 pounds of biomass every year.
CLEARAS CEO, Greg Guard said: “We have cleaned the water, cleaned the air and our new partnership allows us to close the loop on the circular economy with earth-friendly products.”
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