Reusing cars and food
Two UK companies stood out at the GLOBE 2012 conference in Vancouver. Britain is fostering a burgeoning sustainability industry, with 15 represented at GLOBE alone. These companies were eager to show Canada what they could bring to the country. British Columbia Environment Minister, Terry Lake, complimented the U.K. on their strong showing and acknowledged that British Columbia could learn a few things from the U.K.
ASM
ASM is a biotech company that can convert organic (primarily food) waste from discard to a saleable fertilizer pellet in three days. In fact, food waste was the primary inspiration for founding the company.
CarTakeBack
CarTakeBack mines raw materials from cars and reintroduces them into the car making process. In Europe there is already a high value attached to reusing materials, since they have become scarce locally.
Comments
Well I could say my car is a re-used one. The previous owner told me I had one week to get the car from his parking lot, or else he'd send it to the scrapyard. Turned out there was just some little electrical problem, so with a new distributor cap and spark plug cables it's run perfectly for several years now. It's a 1988 Ford Escort, but why melt it down as long as it runs?
I'm very surprised to see that are not that many companies involved in recycling food...as some already know, there are big money to be made in this industry, but perhaps the technology is out of financial reach...
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