Solutions

Each year plants – including food crops, trees and other types of vegetation – draw enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to offset up to a third of the world’s carbon emissions.

But when plants die or are used and discarded as waste they decompose and release that carbon back into the atmosphere as methane.

Canada generates over 35 million tonnes of food waste each year, of which significant quantities end up in landfills. Landfills are unhealthy environments that produce noxious odours, liquid leachate, air pollution, and food for scavengers. Landfills also produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas up to 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

In Canada, landfills contribute up to 25% of our methane emissions, and globally methane from landfills represents 8% of total GHG emissions (by comparison, the aviation industry only represents about 2%).

What’s our solution?

At Carbon Lock Tech we see organic waste as “captured carbon” that can be converted into a stable form of biocarbon (or sometimes called biochar).

 What is biochar?

Biocarbon can be produced from almost any type of organic matter. It is chemically stable and can sequester carbon for a very long time. Once produced, biocarbon has many sustainable applications:

• Agriculture
• Sustainable Construction
• Green Infrastructure
• Municipal Landfills
• Mining and Soil Remediation
• Advanced Materials