As the world’s population grows, the need to provide for the essentials of living like food, clean air and water, energy and housing will also grow. Current tensions between economic development and environmental stability will become more severe. These escalating conflicts will present numerous opportunities for CWT.
What Lies Ahead
A substantial commercial interest exists for using the TCP for shredder residue, scrap tires, and municipal solid waste. Testing on shredder residue, on behalf of the Vehicle Recycling Partnership (research arm of the major auto manufacturers), confirms the viability of this feedstock in the TCP.
As we enter the twenty-first century, global warming has become a critical concern for all nations. Many industrialized countries have announced plans which will limit atmospheric releases and favor those enterprises that are environmentally beneficial. In November 2004, three professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Energy and the Environment published the preliminary results of their “life cycle” analysis on our technology, as applied to agricultural waste. In that publication, they concluded that our conversion process “…comes out beneficial regarding global warming.”
